Code for San Jose 2021 Wrap

👋 Welcome

Hello civic tech friends,

Check out our recap of December, including our 2021 wrap and project updates.

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🌟Happy Holidays

✏️ Code for San Jose Updates

🌟 Code for San Jose Wrapped 🌟

🍁 Leadership Changes

Open leadership positions: Assistant Director of Backend Engineering, Executive Assistant, Marketing Coordinator, Grant Writer, and more are available.

Interested? Reach out to Annie on our Slack workspace.

🎉 Code for San José Project Highlights

• Project Heart of the Valley finalized the homepage hi-fi design and is working on coding the homepage.
• Project E-Immigrate started the know your rights spreadsheet.
• Project Happening at the Moment is finalizing community member views.

All active projects are looking for volunteers; check out the opportunities below. For more information and project updates, view our project listing data.

Opportunities

Job Opportunities

• Software Engineer, AMTS at QuantumScape
• Web Developer at January Advisors
• Product Manager, Consumer Software at Polco
• Data Scientist at Patrick J. McGovern Foundation

Volunteer Opportunities

• Project City Agenda Scraper is building a scraper that automatically reviews public meeting information agendas to provide exciting and relevant information to community members.
  Open Roles: Project Manager and Product Manager
• Project Police Data Trust provides information about police misconduct through a searchable web application.
  Open Roles: User Experience Researcher and Project Manager
• Project Happening at the Moment is building a website that helps San Jose residents browse City Council Agendas, subscribe to specific Agenda Items, and receive notifications for when their Agenda Items are discussed.
  Open Roles: Software Project Manager, Project Manager, Backend Software Engineer, Frontend Engineer
• Project Keplair is a web-based tool that recommends educational experiences to help people create their learning journey using KEPLAIR, an AI program.
  Open Roles: Project Team Leader and Project Manager

Check out more opportunities by joining our Slack workspace.

🌏 Events

Check out our upcoming events:

• South Bay Map Night: Jan 4, 2022
• New Member Onboarding: Jan 13, 2022
• South Bay Map Night: Jan 18, 2022
• New Member Onboarding: Jan 27, 2022
• South Bay Map Night: Feb 1, 2022
• New Member Onboarding: Feb 10, 2022
• South Bay Map Night: Feb 15, 2022
• New Member Onboarding: Feb 24, 2022

🐰 That’s all, folks!

If you’re hungry for more, here’s how you can find out what Code for San José is working on and get involved:

Join us for our next meetup on January 4.

To get in touch with us, email us at codeforsanjose@gmail.com, or find us on Slack.

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Until next month, take care, and let’s keep up the good work!

Bri,

Code for San José Newsletter Producer

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