Open Government, Open Data & Civic Tech in Austin, Texas

Established 2009 | Open-Austin.org | info@open-austin.org | @OpenAustin

Project Champion Night
What: We will provide people with project ideas an opportunity to ask questions and
refine their project ideas.

People should walk away knowing the following:

● Who Open Austin and ATX Hack for Change are

● The ATX Hack for Change timeline
● Past Project examples from ATX Hack for Change and Open Austin
● A clearer understanding of their project and resources available
● The Open Austin + ATX Hack for Change submission process
 SIGN IN, PLEASE

open-austin.org/welcome

Free t-shirt after your 5th sign-in!

It helps us a lot also
Agenda
6:55pm Intros

7:05pm Open Austin & ATX Hack for Change

7:15pm Project Roll-Call

7:25pm Breakout Groups + PC 101

8:45pm ✨ Announcements, Share Out, Tidy Up, &

Leave
Intros
➔ Name

➔ Personal Pronouns
◆ (she/her, they/them, he/him, ze/hir)
We use gender pronouns to make the space more
comfortable and inclusive. People may appear
differently than they identify. Knowing and asking
someone's gender is better and less awkward than
misgendering them.

➔ Give us an overview of your project idea/if any.

➔ What do you expect to get out of today’s event?

Mission

We help communities and

governments exchange
ideas through the use of
data, technology, and
design.
Learn Something New?

Give us a Tweet at @OpenAustin

& @ATXhack4change
We host 4 types of events

Project Champ Night Civic Hack Night Civic Hack Saturday Lightning Talks
Work through your Pitch your project Meet with your team Share insights,
project idea with the and find folks or new folks and success, and failures
community. interested in working keep hacking forward with the community
with you. together.

Find us on Meetup to stay up to date

meetup.com/Open-Austin/events/
➔ Our Network
Code for America’s Programs
◆ Brigade.codeforamerica.org
June 1-3, 2018
St. Edward’s University
info@atxhackforchange.org

www.atxhackforchange.org
2017 Highlights
Timeline

➔ Registration open now

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/atx-hack-for-change-2
018-tickets-38777852601

➔ Submit a project by April 27thth

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeVxs0r
3ZojSWEkJk2nUFSxDY00UBmCzumoUDMDAktql8VV7
Q/viewform

➔ Projects announced May 14th

How you can
get involved

➔ Submit a project

➔ Be a hacker

➔ Be a volunteer
Project Roll Call
Projects Here today
https://github.com/open-austin/project-ideas/issues

➔ Josh
◆ Legitblock.com Block chain voting
◆ Had bokbot last year

➔ Jon
◆ Businessregistration.io business registration platform to create
an entity in any state. Currently a typeform.

➔ Slot Here
We’re Going To
Break Out Now
Project Champion 101
So
You have a great idea
We want to empower you
So we can make an impact in Austin
Civic Tech Project
Examples
Currently Active Open Austin Projects
https://github.com/open-austin/project-ideas/issues

➔ Influence texas ➔ Texas AppleSeed

https://github.com/open-austi https://github.com/open-austi
n/project-ideas/issues/108 n/project-ideas/issues/14

➔ Request Yo Racks
https://github.com/open-austi ➔ Fire Department Scheduling
n/project-ideas/issues/117 App
https://github.com/open-austi
➔ Budget Party n/project-ideas/issues/121
https://github.com/open-austi
n/project-ideas/issues/70
Austin Park Equity
Mateo Clarke
Shed light on an issue
Budget Party
Open Austin
Educate on a topic
Open Carry Austin
Megan Vo
Tell a story
Wage Island
Ekene Ijeoma
Create an experience
We See an open
government and open
data as fuel for civic
innovation
Strong Open Austin Projects Have:
1. A Clear Problem Statement

2. Community partner(s) or Organization(s)

Think non-profit, city department, school, or business.

3. Clear Milestones
Such as dates for completion help motivate

4. Open Data priority

Such as freeing, creating, using, or manipulating open data
So if you’re going to lead a
project, consider the
following
Defining Users

Who is your project for? Be specific.

Finding Partners

Who is already working on this issue

that your project idea is addressing?
Choosing Milestones

Where can your project debut or

when will it be the most impactful?
Defining an MVP

What is the simplest thing you can

make that works and has an impact?
Making a Pitch
Step 1: Who are you?

Step 2: What do you do?

Step 3: Who are your projects users?

Step 4: What’s unique about your project?

The Civic Tech
Canvas was
developed to
help us to
flesh out our
projects
Submission
Submission Questions
➔ What problem are we trying to solve?

➔ Who will benefit (directly and indirectly) from this project?

➔ Where can we find any research/data available/articles?

➔ What help is needed at this time?

➔ What are the next steps (validation, research, design, coding)?

You can do it right now

Open Austin ATX Hack 4 Change

➔ Either with Github ➔ Submission form
https://github.com/op https://docs.google.com/forms
en-austin/project-idea /d/e/1FAIpQLSeVxs0r3ZojSWE
s kJk2nUFSxDY00UBmCzumoUD
MDAktql8VV7Q/viewform
➔ Or Google Form
https://goo.gl/forms/
CJEL19kvzSqCMjZx1
Getting your project nailed
down is a start. But also
think about your team!
Meet and work!
➔ Meet with your team and work on your project!

➔ Reach out to #general on Slack for when you run into problems or need
skill sets that your team doesnt have

➔ See @leadership with any other questions

Resources
Hack for Change Staff
Ashley DiStefano
Event Organizer

adistefa@stedwards.edu
info@atxhackforchange.org
512-470-5348

Registration is now open!

www.atxhackforchange.org
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/atx-hack-for-change-201
8-tickets-38777852601
Open Austin Leadership

Victoria O’Dell Sarah Shields Marcos Vanetta Matt Carey Jon Placa
Co-captain Co-captain Projects Co-lead Projects Co-lead Finance Lead

Reach us at Info@open-austin.org or say hey to @leadership in Slack

Open Austin Civic Hack Night
Pitch your project and find folks
interested in working with you.
Expect:

➔ Intros & announcements

➔ Project pitches

➔ People joining your project

working group
Open Austin Civic Hack Saturday
Meet with your team or new
folks and keep hacking forward.
Expect:

➔ Intros

➔ Study hall working space

for your project team or
new folks

➔ Progress check-ins
Open Austin Lightning Talks
Share insights, success, and
failures with the community

➔ Intros & Announcements

➔ 5 unique lightning talks

from community members

➔ Social time at Cenote

 Join the conversation
Slack.open-austin.org

Join #oa-project-champs Ping @leadership to create a channel for your project

 Keep up with us
Meetup.com/Open-Austin

Chat with us about *affiliated/partner OA meetups

Any other resources
from the crowd?
➔ Resource
➔ Resource
Announcements
Announcements
➔ Code for America National Advisory Council Has been Chosen

➔ Early Voting has started!

Share Out, Tidy Up
and Head Out
 We're All Ears
Give us post-event feedback
https://goo.gl/forms/GAE4l8291M5L2o9I3
Team Building
- Exchange information!
- Exchange email and phone numbers with your team

- Determine the cadence of when you’re going to meet outside of Open Austin events
- Do you want to meet monthly, weekly?
- What is the timeline for your project?
- How will you stay in touch?
- Slack, email, texting, etc.
- What communication methods work best for each of you?
- How do you work together?
- What skills do you have on your team?
- What skills do you want to learn from each other?
- Do a Team Canvas to build rapport and understand wants and needs