Code for DC has changed fiscal sponsors and our donation page no longer works for the new fiscal sponsor. We should update it so that people can donate money to us.

Our previous fiscal sponsor was Code for America. Our new fiscal sponsor is OpenCollective.

OpenCollective has some documentation on how people can donate. It's not clear at a glance if we'll need to link to our OpenCollective org, or if we can embed a donation form into codefordc.org

This ticket includes:

1. Research OpenCollective's process for collecting contributions. What are our options, technically, for collecting donations?
2. Proposing a technical solution (which could be linking to our OpenCollective profile, or integrating some sort of donation form into codefordc.org
3. Implementing the new donation mechanism

update the link at the bottom from Twitter to LinkedIn per conversation with @sheldon-b at meetup
EDIT: it's also in the header

Currently (as of 075ba86), the CSS referenced by the html is css_new/uswds.min.css. Normally, that would be built from the source file css_new/uswds.css. But it's not actually being minified in the build process. The minified file we're actually serving is committed to the repo, so it's static unless anyone manually updates it.

Heads up: this bug was very hard to find because the mapping between the source file and minified file (css_new/uswds.min.css.map) is also a static file committed to the repo. So looking in the browser's dev tools shows unminified css that won't match the actual unminified css you're editing.

People's comments:

Matt Gordon

The 2 things I wanted to know about Code for DC:

Dates/Times/Locations for Meetings

List of Current ongoing Projects and their Startuses (where they are at and what needs to be completed)

Maria Skibniewska

Links to social media so I can follow Code for DC, in big, colorful, obvious icons at the bottom (edited)

Resources for first-time coders

side note: make a facebook and instagram

a "media" section of news articles about projects

friendly-looking color scheme

not too much burgundy and black

Melissa M

Upcoming events/project nights (calendar)
Active projects
Past projects
How to submit a proposal
Background (how it works, who runs it)
Join the slack channel
Announcements and job listings
Donate
Resources (learning materials, free online courses, etc.)

Sol Vitkin

I think the main thing for me would be information on all the projects:

• link to GitHub
• short blurb on project description
• all the tech currently being used on project
• status of project
• contact information for someone to talk to about the project

Also a part of the website that lists some of the stuff (like Docker) that are used on most/all of projects and links to tutorials

Expected: The link to the data portal found:

should direct to data.codefordc.org

What actually happens:
User is directed www.data.codefordc.org

Doesn't work when clicking through from the Code of Conduct.

• https://codefordc.org/contact.html

Answering questions like:

• What kind of experience do I need?
• Is there a regular schedule to the project nights?
• What types of projects get worked on?
• What skills are you looking for?
• What would I be working on?
• What if I have an idea for a project?
• Will I get paid or is this a volunteer thing?
• Are you part of any network of organizations?

it overflows the top bar and overlaps with page content

[email protected] email address is referenced a few places. is there an email to replace it?

https://github.com/civictechdc/codefordc-website/blob/0d84d30a33eaace06de336654788b97769410e74/code-of-conduct.md?plain=1#L54
https://github.com/civictechdc/codefordc-website/blob/0d84d30a33eaace06de336654788b97769410e74/code-of-conduct.md?plain=1#L72
https://github.com/civictechdc/codefordc-website/blob/0d84d30a33eaace06de336654788b97769410e74/index.html#L196

School Modernization Funds link on project page is
http://forgenerationstocome.org. This link redirects to a clothing boutique website: https://splashofcolors.org/.

Screenshots below:

the hero-p paragraph on mobile overlaps with the logo. Changing the margin-left to 70%/80% resolved it and also looks better IMO on the desktop version too. I don't want to do a pull request just to change one number so I'm adding this comment

Thanks!

In the "Join us at one of our upcoming project nights!" section, each upcoming meetup's address is a hyperlink that's supposed to take you to a Google Map of the meetup location.

On the old website, it does the expected behavior correctly: https://codefordc.github.io/

On the new site, it does not. Instead, it takes you to a super-zoomed-out map.

For the new site, here's the script that's adding meetup info to the home page: https://github.com/codefordc/codefordc-website/blob/master/index.html#L170

On the old site, here's the script that did that: https://github.com/codefordc/codefordc.github.com/blob/master/assets/js/meetup.js

The link we put on hackpads for people to join our slack channel doesn’t work. The link on our homepage does work so maybe we should just update what we put on hackpads? Either way, maybe the page that doesn't work needs to be deleted?

This is the url that doesn't work: codefordc.org/joinslack
The one that does work is: https://codefordc.org/resources/slack.html

Since blog posts are not on the new site, entering a URL like https://codefordc.org/blog/2016/09/12/code-for-dcaf.html leads to a 404 error. The content can be found on the old site (codefordc.github.io), with this example being at: https://codefordc.github.io/blog/2016/09/12/code-for-dcaf.html.

We should add a script to the 404 page that either auto-redirects people or says "hey, this content has moved, here's where you can find it: [link]"