Joining the Team

Welcome

Welcome to the Civic Opportunity Project Team! This guide will help get you up to speed on what you need to know to get started as a project team member.

Getting Started

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

1. Read Introduction to the Project
2. Fill in our Volunteer Interest Form
3. Join the Civic Opportunity Slack channel and introduce yourself
4. Slack our PM Ray with your Gmail address
5. Accept your Google Drive invite to access the shared folder
6. Add yourself to the Team Roster and inform Ray once complete
7. Review the Glossary (in progress)
8. Attend our weekly meetings on Thursdays @ 4pm PST and Sundays @ 9am PST via Zoom

Who are you?

Click the link that applies to you to find a sequence of immediate action steps: (in progress)

• Web Developer
• UX/UI Designer
• Data Scientist
• Content Writer
• Product Manager/Owner
• Other Volunteer

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