This repository is for the onboarding of technical volunteers for the Lessig2016 campaign.

1. Subscribe to the Team Lessig Tech Google Group.
2. Complete the Technical Volunteer Registration.
3. Join us on Slack. You will receive your invite once you complete the skills assessment.
4. Review our project repos on GitHub.
5. Fork the projects that interest you, get them running locally and start contributing!

If you have any questions, please contact the Tech Volunteer Coordinator.

Team Lessig Tech will hold a weekly "wake up" call for volunteers. ⏰

The call will take place on Saturday mornings at 11am PT (2pm ET) and is open to all volunteers via Google Hangouts. It will last approximately one hour.

We will discuss the previous week's progress and the following week's needs and events. We will try our best to answer questions and address concerns within the allotted time.

Meeting agendas and minutes will be recorded in the meetings directory of this repository. Please contact the Tech Volunteer Coordinator if you would like to volunteer to record the minutes.

Team Lessig Tech maintains a Slack to allow real-time chat between volunteers and campaign staff.

The Slack contains a channel for each of the team's projects, as well as other relevant topics, including: frontend, backend, mobile and big data.

To receive an invite, please complete the Technical Volunteer Registration.

Team Lessig Tech also provides an open forum for the discussion of campaign strategy and tactics, technical implementations and ideas on Google Groups.

Team Lessig Tech values the contributions of all of its volunteers and seeks to facilitate engagement and collaboration with each of its projects. We encourage volunteers of every skill level to contribute and we will make every effort to ensure

We promote transparency, which is why even the team's policies and practices are maintained in a GitHub repository. If you have a suggestion on how to improve our process, would like to make a correction, follow our standard approach for contributing code and submit a pull request containing your changes to our documentation.

For example, if you would like to change the time of the weekly "wake up" call, you would fork this repo, edit the time and submit a pull request. The merits of your change will be discussed inline and, if your change is appoved, it will be merged, changing the time of the call. 👏

The Lessig Equal Citizens Exploratory Committee is committed to fostering an open and inclusive community where engaged, dedicated volunteers can build the strategy and tools necessary to fix our country's democracy. All members of the community are expected to behave with civility, speak honestly and treat one another respectfully.

This project adheres to the Open Code of Conduct. By participating, you are expected to honor this code.

This reference as well as the included copy of the Code of Conduct shall be included in all forks and distributions of this repository.

The Lessig campaign is not responsible for the content posted to this repository, or for actions taken or liabilities incurred by one or more group members.

You may not post content to the repository that you do not own, and by posting content you consent to its use by others, including the campaign.

You are responsible for your compliance with federal campaign finance laws. You may not, for example, volunteer for the campaign if you are being paid by someone else to do so, or volunteer while at work unless it is limited to a few hours per month and your volunteering doesn’t create additional costs for your employer.

The campaign may remove any offensive, abusive, attacking, or discriminatory content, as well as any content that may otherwise violate our Terms of Service.

Copyright 2015 Lessig Equal Citizens Exploratory Committee.

The contents of this repository are released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License.

All software maintained in this repository is released under GNU Affero General Public License, version 3.