Brigade News

• New Brigade Resources page
  • Including free software for Brigades! They just added G Suite, which means we can make @codefordenver.org emails 🤔
• National Day of Civic Hacking - August 11
• Job board for public interest tech - governments can post jobs for free
• "This Week in Civic Tech" (updated weekly)
• Knowledge sharing - Discourse channel for Code For America Brigades
• CfA vision, mission, values, and operating principles (developed at Brigade Congress in October)

Brigade Workshops

Accountability is a Form of Care

Providing a culture of accountability via prevention, intervention and healing.

• Bystander Intervention Techniques & Resources
• Takeaways for CfD:
  • Treat it like a job - put in the time and effort to create safe spaces
  • Set up email address where people can report harassment ([email protected])
  • Is it irresponsible to not have a Communications Lead who monitors our social media channels?
  • Define consequences for breaking the Code of Conduct (ie. you will be asked to leave)
  • Leadership: be aware of interactions during project/hack nights, specifically if anyone is being harassed or appears uncomfortable (see **Bystander Intervention Techniques & Resources)**

With, Not for: A Very Mini-organizing Bootcamp

• You can't organize or activate a community unless you're a part of it; one-way engagement isn't engagement at all
• What matters is who gets to be a creator
• "Build With" Criteria
  1. Literally start with people
  2. Cater to context
  3. Respond to need
  4. Build for best fit - use tools that the community is already using (be adaptive)
  5. Prove it