Milwaukee Digital Public Works

[Aycrazy]

About the group

Fix the issue of digital civic projects tending to lack access to the resources, skills, and public input necessary to complete their mission.

Our team wants to ...

"help more digital civic projects get completed."

"As a citizen, I want to solicit help from technologists and organizers, so that I can get specific problems in my community fixed" - Nick Gartmann

Group leaders

Nick Gartmann (nick@rokkincat.com)

Who we're looking for

designers, programmers, and organizers

Tools

Elixir, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Basecamp, Github

Relevant Links

www.digitalpublicworks.com

Where we meet

Where in the space do you meet? Flipping Tables? The cafeteria?

Code For Milwaukee slack channel

The CfM Slack is a great place to coordinate between hack nights. We encourage you to set one up and share it here!

As you start your group (whether learning or working) consider the scoping questions in this document

[Aycrazy]

As a user, I'm wondering, how can groups like CfM, Code the Way, Girls Who Code, etc.. use this as a place to pick up projects and begin the process of owning developing and communicating a product to help with a given need/issue