Volunteers Welcome!
EnCiv Is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to making democracy work better online. There are several reasons to volunteer here, perhaps it's to further the mission, or perhaps it's to get real-world experience, or learn a new talent, or perhaps you have lots of experience and want to give back.
If you would like to get involved, join the slack workspace. We have regular meetings online on Tuesdays at 7:30pm Pacific Time as part of Open San Diego a Code for America Brigade. See the Slack channel for announcments and links. But you don't have to be able to attend the meeting to contribute. Join the slack and introduce yourself.
Here are some of the things we are looking for, technical and non-technical.
Product Management
In each project within EnCiv there are many product related tasks that need work to. see the currently open Product Management Tasks
Marketing Director
We're building it, but that dosen't mean the people will come. How do we bring them here? And, after people come, how do we quickly excite them with the value of what this will do and get them to sign up and get started? We're looking for someone who can take charge and help with this. What should the new enciv.org website look like? What should the tag line be? How should we engage with social media and what channels? These are just some of the areas where we need someone with marketing instincts to take the lead.
React and Javascript Front End
The unpoll and undebate projects are built with React and the pages are animated, and undebates uses video. This means it's more than just layout, there are some advanced javascript things to do. If you know how, or if you are interested in working animation or video, here is a great opportunity. Click here to see the currently open issues for React Developers
Explainer Video Creator
Explainer Videos make a big difference in getting people's attention. We need help with developing the scripts, and doing the animation. This is the explainer video for candidates, about Candidate Conversations - (undebates). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlhrzVUAIpo
Node User Account Development
Our platform is built on Node, and we are creating a server 'component' that projects can use and extend, in order to get user account management. We are looking for help doing things like forgot-password, and two factor authentication, and more. And we are interestsed in using Passport
Project Manager
Help us run our weekly meeting, and keep track of the github issues that we work on. We're open to using github projects, or some other free tool like Trello.