About Us Page

[alexandrastubbs]

Overview

Create an 'About Us' page to host information on the organization, primarily built for partner/sponsor audience, but also for individuals or potential volunteers looking to learn more about what we do.

Action Items

Information Needed

• Bonnie to share summary blurb for the page
• Bonnie to share summary on workforce development
• Bonnie to share list of partners
• Bonnie will write letter

Design

• Low fidelity mock-up
• Review with product
• High fidelity mock-up
• Review with product

Development

• Create page based on Figma mockup
• Add to menu of HfLA site - desktop and mobile
• Before publish, ask Bonnie for letter.

Resources/Instructions

Dashboard page: https://hackforla.org/dashboard

[ExperimentsInHonesty]

Partners (past and current):
Yale OpenLab, https://openlab.yale.edu/,
Empower LA
Digital Defense Fund
Point Source Youth
SPY
LADOT
City of Santa Monica
NDICA
EnCiv.org
Balotopedia
LA City Attorney's office
LA Mayors Office
LA City Department of Personnel
LA County Homeless Initiative
LA Metro
Hope of the Valley

[alexandrastubbs]

Add in a projects section and include some cards (tiny) similar to Hack Nights page.

[leestella748]

@ExperimentsInHonesty @alexandrastubbs

I added a projects section and added a few partner logos just to see what it would look like when populated with the actual logos.

Figma: https://www.figma.com/file/0RRPy1Ph7HafI3qOITg0Mr/Hack-for-LA-Website?node-id=2003%3A817

[alexandrastubbs]

• Add icons to accomplishments

[leestella748]

Icons added! Let me know if this is what you meant and if there are any other changes you'd like to see

[alexandrastubbs]

We will be adding the entire want to know more about HfLA section from the current homepage to the bottom of this page. We will also be adding a CTA to the footer that drives here.

[alexandrastubbs]

@leestella748

Bonnie & I took a look at the Figma. Can we make the 'want to know more' section more like the section on the current website with card on card? Screenshot pasted here.

[alexandrastubbs]

Some other notes -- where we currently have workforce development, we would like to replace with 'Hack for LA Pillars' and then include the following information below (possibly in an accordion format given the quantity of information):

Workforce Development: Enlightened self-interest is a powerful motivator. Our members have access to mentorship, one-on-one help with job searches, and resume coaching. We do project matching to fit skill and subject areas that they wish to develop new skills, gain confidence in newly learned skills, transition from beginner to junior, to mid-level, or expert. And often in areas they wish to add impressive credits to their resume.
Impact: We choose and empower projects where there is a demonstrable impact on stakeholders, project partners, our local community and our members.
Learning: an environment where every member and the org itself benefit from the shared experiences of the members. From high school students to Ph.D., from novice to expert, there is knowledge to be gained by sharing practices and working collaboratively, making mistakes and learning from them in an environment that values failing fast and learning.
Diversity Equity and Inclusion: The diverse experiences of all of our members help us create a better civic tech ecosystem, by bringing their lived experience to our org. Our diversity includes race, sexual orientation, learning modalities, cognitive abilities, and socio-economic experiences. Our model of inclusion requires and inspires empathy and patience, both with others and ourselves. We are all here to learn to work together to create the change we want to see in the world, and that happens one conversation at a time.
Giving: We all come together to give freely of our time, expertise and interest and empathy, in an effort to improve our local community through direct action.
Agility: There will be impediments, setbacks and disappointments. We embrace change by empowering our members to meet, talk, experiment and achieve enough common consensus to move internal initiatives forward, without rigid structures and oppressive processes. This works on project teams, Communities of Practice and Organizational Stewardship.
Sustainability: to create a sustainable community that provides consistent results and experience for stakeholders and a feeling of stability amongst its members.
Scalability: In order to scale our impact with people and projects, we experiment, iterate and refine, measure and automate.

@ExperimentsInHonesty will follow-up with the copy for Accomplishments & Metrics.

[alexandrastubbs]

Last note - we need to find a place on this page to say "Hack for LA support’s LA’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) movement" and link to https://sdg.lamayor.org/.

We should include the logo as well: https://sdg.lamayor.org/sites/g/files/wph1131/f/styles/medium/public/LA.png?itok=NGcr9CbL

[alexandrastubbs]

During our stand up, we discussed the following:

@daniellen00 :

• turning the top portion of the page on the right where we have the 'Hack for LA Platform' information into a letter format
• Try a version of the page with a menu at the top

@ExperimentsInHonesty :

• gather all the partner logos and place in this folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1DBgFWGwreCKaZoh29Xe7OG92swy-uE1L
• update accomplishments (specifically the national day of civic hacking) and adding links to each of the project pages

Needs to be assigned to developer:

• Make sure that you put the trophy image from the wins section on the credits page (https://thenounproject.com/search/?q=trophy&i=1527058)