Welcome

My Neighborhood

Learning, Building, Sharing

Open San Diego

August 17, 2015

Life happens here.

Carol Willing

Geek-in-Residence, FabLab San Diego

Director, Python Software Foundation

Developer, Willing Consulting

Programming a basic website

# "A quick website to say welcome"
from flask import Flask
app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route("/")
def welcome():
    return "Welcome to Open San Diego"

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app.run()
					 

Serving your community

# "A quick website to say welcome"
from flask import Flask
app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route("/")
def welcome():
    message_today = "Too hot? Visit http://www.211sandiego.org for cool zones."
    return "Welcome to Open San Diego. " + message_today

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app.run()
					 

I want

???

in San Diego

Learning. Building. Sharing.

Who?

Magic internet pixies

Rockstar programmers

Unicorns

Um...no

..................You

Code for America

People

Remember the tortoise!

People

Code of Conduct

Prominently displayed

Every event and website

People

Recurse Center

Participation

Participation

Fun and Creative

Planning

"Many hands" motto

Planning

Be visible.

Encourage gently. User groups.

Every contribution is a valuable one.

Say thank you and publicly recognize contributors.

Partnerships

Be bold.

Move beyond "It's always been done that way."

Challenge self doubts "I'm too ..." and "I can't..."

Seek input from those directly served.

Partnerships

Small projects grow into larger successes.

Listen. Really listen.

Respect the time of others.

Life happens. On ramps and off ramps.

Be humble. Remember the project's goal.

Communicate.

Automate the things.

Create flow.

How do we talk to people?

Communication tools

IRC, Discourse, Slack, email, social media, group chats, meetings

Use what works. 18F Guides

Tone matters. Voice & Tone

In-person conversation and phone calls underused

Automate the things.

Testing and CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment)

Jenkins, Travis, Coverage, CircleCI

Use version control software. Transparency.

GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab

Samples

Interact and engage

Hour of Code 2014

Empower

National Day of Civic Hacking 2015

Change

San Diego Womens' Hackathon

Bone health and Water conservation projects

Ways to learn more...

Join Open San Diego

Get involved

User groups like San Diego Python

SD Javascript, SD Ruby, GeekGirl, GirlDevelopIt, DjangoGirls and more

Community spaces like Fab Lab San Diego

Ask questions

I want learning, building, and sharing in my San Diego neighborhood

to increase access to community mental health resources.

Thank you

Presentation: http://bit.ly/sdneighborhood

Source code: http://bit.ly/sdneighborhood-source

Happy hacking!