Code for Fort Collins is a volunteer organization which aims to use technological skills to make the community better. Around that mission, we have a variety of positions and needs.
- A national-level organization that (among other things) shepards brigades like us
- In totally they have ~70 brigades
- They are our fiduciary (money-manager) and our legal protection
- We are bound to them with an MOU (memorandum of understanding)
- But we're basically in control day-to-day
- We decide direction, projects, etc. They just try to support us.
- Their values page is great though: https://www.codeforamerica.org/values
Ideally, we serve to make it easy for volunteers (coders) to have a positive impact by quickly matching them with
Feel free to change order.
Currently at new.fcbikecoop.org, we're getting ready to launch a new WordPress site to spruce up a very-old site.
Working with Homeward 2020, we built a data dashboard to inform the community about homelessness. http://www.homeward2020.org/data-dashboard/
Basically complete. An analysis of how much solar power is produced in the City of Forts Collins and how it compares to the city's climate goals.
Go into the community, explain what we do, recruit volunteers, new projects, and money.
It can always use both technical and non-technical work.
We're looking for:
- Co-captains
- Project Leaders
- Subject-matter experts
- Visit the website
- Join our Slack (https://codeforfocoslack.herokuapp.com/, or find the button on CodeforFoCo.org)
- Join Meetup (and RSVP)
- Check out our GitHub (https://github.com/CodeForFoco)
- Read the Code of Conduct (https://github.com/CodeForFoco/org/blob/master/Code_of_Conduct.md)
- PLEASE don't let confusion stop you from getting involved. We're happy to answer questions. We know it can be intimidating, but we're happy you're here.