Communities of Practice

A Community of Practice (CoP) is a group of people who share a common interest in a topic and meet regularly to fulfill both individual and group goals. At Hack for LA, we use CoPs to share effective practices and relevant domain knowledge to help our members grow.

All new volunteers at Hack for LA should join the relevant CoP and work on a couple of issues there to familiarize yourself with GitHub and how things work at Hack for LA. Once you have some proficiency, you will be assigned to a project. You are encouraged to continue attending CoP meetings to continue domain learning and peer to peer mentorship.

Our Communities

Community of Practice Repository	README	Wiki	Get Access	GMT Time	PST Time	MST Time	EST Time	Meeting Link
UI/UX	🔗		🔗	Tue_2am	Mon_6pm	Mon_7pm	Mon_9pm	Zoom
Product Management	🔗	🔗	🔗	Wed_2am Fri_6pm	Tue_6pm Fri_10am	Tue_7pm Fri_11am	Tue_9pm Fri_1pm	Zoom
Ops	🔗		🔗	Wed_4am	Tue_8pm	Tue_9pm	Tue_11pm	Zoom
Marketing	🔗		🔗	Fri_2am	Thu_6pm	Thu_7pm	Thu_9pm	Zoom
Data Science	🔗		🔗	Fri_4am	Thu_8pm	Thu_9pm	Thu_11pm	Zoom
Revenue	🔗		🔗	Sat_12:30am	Fri_4:30pm	Fri_5:30pm	Fri_7pm	Zoom
Engineering	🔗		🔗

How to Join a Community of Practice

• Read the Wiki or Readme for your Community of Practice
• Click the Get Access link and follow the instructions
• Attend your Community of Practice meetings (if there are two, you can attend the one that is convenient)

How to Start a new Community of Practice

• Slack Ray to be added to the next civic Opportunity meeting
• Come to the Civic Opportunity meeting Thursdsays at 4pm PST and Sundays at 9am PST

Open Roles (on Projects) with Role Definitions by Practice Areas

If you are a Product Manager who needs to recruit any of the below talent for your team, please click on the relevant role boards and add the role you are looking for.

• UI/UX - Design
  • ui-designer
  • ux-designer
• UI/UX - Research
  • ux-researcher
  • needed: ux-program-designer
  • needed: ux-community-of-practice-lead
  • needed: ux-research-lead
• Data Science
  • data-scientist
  • data-analyst
• Engineering (programming)
  • front-end-developer
  • back-end-developer
  • full-stack-developer
  • qa-engineer (also SDET)
• Ops
  • data-engineer-devops
• Product Management
  • business-analyst
  • product-manager
  • product-owner
  • special-projects-coordinator
  • needed: lead-product-manager
• Marketing
  • marketing-and-communications-coordinator
  • marketing-and-communications-director
  • marketing-and-communications-intern
  • marketing-and-communications-manager
• Revenue
  • needed: institutional-giving-manager
  • needed: individual-giving-manager
  • needed: project-fundraising-specialist

Help us Add Roles

• Help us write new role descriptions (list of all current role descriptions)
  • = We have a role definition
  • = We need a role definition