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Joining the Team

ValeriyaMetla edited this page Mar 7, 2022 · 34 revisions

Introduction

Welcome to the Expunge Assist team! This guide will help get you up to speed on what you need to know to get started as a project team member.


Let's go!

If you have not read the Guide for New Volunteers, please do so.

  1. Read Introduction to the Project if you haven't already read it.
  2. Join the #expunge-assist(https://app.slack.com/client/T04502KQX/CN8NXTPK5) Slack channel and introduce yourself.
  3. Slack our PMs (Thomas Demoner and Valeriya Metla) with your desired volunteer role and Gmail address.
  4. PMs will onboard you using GitHub onboarding issue for UX Researchers
    1. Accept your Google Drive invite to access the shared folder.
    2. Add yourself to the Team Roster and inform PM after you have done so.
    3. Review the Glossary.
    4. Attend our biweekly Team Meetings (alternating Mondays at 6 pm PST) as well as either the Design & Research Meetings (Tuesdays at 6 pm PST) or the Development Meetings (Thursdays at 6 pm PST). You can find the zoom links in our slack channel.

Accessibility standards

Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires that all websites be accessible to people with disabilities. The World Wide Web (W3C) Consortium's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Level AA function as the current legal standard for website accessibility.

Get acquainted with accessibility: https://www.ada.gov/pcatoolkit/chap5toolkit.htm


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Who are you?

Click the link that applies to you to find a sequence of immediate action steps:

Web Developer

UI/UX Designer

UI/UX Researcher

Data Scientist

Content Writer

Product Manager/Owner

Other Volunteer