Open Source and the Volunteer Workforce
summary
A volunteer-led Civic project builds an open data platform using JavaScript and existing OSS, running five concurrent projects with two staff and about a hundred volunteers for months, producing 100+ repositories and 200+ people on the GitHub board. Deliverables include a poverty vs food-access exploratory map, campaign finance visualizations, a Harvard housing report visualization, TriMet ridership trend analysis, and Cascadia subduction neighborhood risk maps, with iterative org chart and recruiting lessons.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 7:40Build your network
- 7:55Gauge interest and skill level
- 12:36Embracing product management
- 17:05Benefits of writing your own docs
- 20:56Diversity is a group phenomenon
- 23:02The Pipeline Problem
- 25:55Wrapping things up
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