Weekly Civic Hack Night w/ JAM Stack Presentation & Open Leadership Council

Interested in helping San Francisco? You have found the right place! 

Join neighbors, government employees, designers, coders, students and more! Our weekly hack night is focused on civic tech and making government services better in San Francisco. We hack/build and learn together every Wednesday evening.

• Contribute to the betterment of San Francisco

• Build your own portfolio of work or work on someone else's cool project

• Meet new (and different!) people

Interested in our current projects?

This week

Special Presentation:: Brian Douglas presents the JAMStack: build your civic projects faster, lighter and easier

Join us for a special presentation from Brian Douglas on the JAMStack. JAMStack refers to a modern web development architecture for building sites on client side Javascript, APIs and prebuilt markup. Brian is the host of JAMStack Radio and is the Lead Developer Advocate for Netlify, a company that automates the pain away of managing static site deployments. Brian will show us why the JAMStack is becoming an architecture of choice for all sorts of projects and how it can be applied in building fast, scalable civic-impact projects.

About Brian Douglas

Brian is a Web Developer at Netlify and the host of the JAMstack Radio podcast. He focuses his day to day work on React and JavaScript development. He previously had a career in sales before turning to his true love, coding. After quickly honing his engineering skills he has since worked as both engineer and mentor to others also looking to make a similar career change.

Open Leadership Council from 5:30-6:30 PM. This is a chance for all interested brigade members to participate in planning the future of the brigade by way of an open planning meeting. Add agenda items to https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V6FW1-eVTaUh2SAG4b6B1VKDnW3z1ORU7GkN0fqYMZs/edit#. Note that this is before opening remarks start.

Every week we also have civic hacking opportunities:

Hacking with CivicMakers, WeVote, OpenReferral, Data Science Team, Adopt-A-Drain, and many more.

Schedule

6:00p doors open, socialize and eat dinner

6:30p welcome remarks and project pitches

7:00p Presentation: Brian Douglas presents the JAMStack OR begin hacking

7:30p more civic hacking

9:00p keep on hacking

9:30p doors close and lights out.

Check out our website. Read/contribute to our code. Communicate via our slack team (or IRC Freenode #sfbrigade). 

If you have questions, please reach out over Slack, contact the organizers via meetup, or drop by on Wednesday evening.