Recruit volunteers for team open roles

[ExperimentsInHonesty]

Dependency

• need to recruit new team members to lead the Product Management Community of Practice

Overview

We need volunteer(s) to work on the open issues we have so that we can move the project forward.

Action Items

Creating a new role post

• Copy the template post from the Community of Practice WIKI, Open Roles Templates (Resource 1.01)
• Paste the template in a comment below
• Customize the comment to reflect your open role
• Open a new issue by using the Open Role template (Resource 1.02)
• Copy and Paste your customized comment to the new issue
• Add the label for the role that you are recruiting for
• Submit the new issue
• Assign yourself to the new issue
• Add the issue to the HfLA: Open Roles project board (Resource 1.03)
• add the link of the new issue to the related comment on this issue
• keep yourself assigned to this issue until the role is filled

Marketing the new role post

• Post a link to the new issue in the Slack channel for the related Practice Area
  • Copy the Slack message (Resource 1.04)
  • Copy the message into the Slack Channel for the relevant Community of Practice (The Slack channels can be found on Resource 1.01)
    • Replace the text [Replace with LINK TO NEW ISSUE] with link to the issue
  • check your team Slack channel for people reaching out after every onboarding and at least every other day

Once Filled

• Hide the comment on this issue for the role you just filled
• Add the following comment to the role posting issue

  This role has been filled by @[Replace with GITHUB HANDLE OF PERSON WHO IS TAKING ROLE]
  

• Close the role posting issue
• Unassign yourself from this issue
• If there are no open roles on this issue (i.e., if there are open roles, there will be unclosed comments)
  • Add the label: Dependency and uncheck the dependency on top of this issue
  • Move this issue to the icebox, on the project board

Resources/Instructions

• 1.01 Community of Practice WIKI, Open Roles Templates, Secondary Issue
• 1.02 [Replace with OPEN ROLE TEMPLATE]
• 1.03 HfLA: Open Roles board
• 1.04 Copy to post in CoP Slack Channels when there is an open role

  Hi, the Product Management Community of Practice has a volunteer posting, which includes details of how to get in touch with us if you are interested. [Replace with LINK TO NEW ISSUE]
  

[ExperimentsInHonesty]

Title

CoP Community Co-Lead (PM)

Issue

• CoP: PM: Open Role for: Cop Co-Lead of Product Management (PM) #377

Body

Name of Role: CoP Community Co-Lead (PM)

Volunteer Opportunity: The Hack for LA Product/Project Management Community of Practice is in need of a Community Lead. We currently do not have any leads running the community, so we need someone (ideally a small team, actually) who can roll up their sleeves and create a space that supports and energizes the Product and Project Managers who make sure the Hack for LA projects are a success.

Duration: At least 3-6 months

Time commitments: 6.25 hours a week

• 1 60 -minute PM CoP meeting a week
• 1 60-minute PM CoP leads meeting a week
• 1 60-minute HfLA CoP leads meeting a month
• 3-4 hours of task work

Who to communicate your interest to

• Slack channel link: #product-management
• Slack name of person to contact in the channel: see who this issue is assigned to and @ message them in the channel above

GO HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION.

[ExperimentsInHonesty]

Post from previous UI/UX Research open roles board, Filled column

Post 1

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**Project Name**: Product Management Community of Practice

**Volunteer Opportunity**: Experienced UX researcher needed to create a user interview to understand how eco-system mapping is done

**Duration**: approx. 2-3 weeks.

**Who to communicate your interest to**
- Slack channel link: [#product-management](https://hackforla.slack.com/archives/C010LNXH2JY)
- Slack name of person to contact in the channel: Sharon Thomas

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Project Name: Product Management Community of Practice

Volunteer Opportunity: Experienced UX researcher needed to create a user interview to understand how eco-system mapping is done

Duration: approx. 2-3 weeks.

Who to communicate your interest to

• Slack channel link: #product-management
• Slack name of person to contact in the channel: Sharon Thomas

Post 2

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**Project Name**: Product Management Community of Practice (Pilot)

**Volunteer Opportunity**:  We are conducting a research to identify the reasons for low attendance at weekly meetings. Outcomes include understanding volunteer motivations, discovering effective meeting practices and how to improve attendance, etc. The research will initially focus on the PM CoP before being implemented by other projects. 

**Duration**: 1-3 months

**Who to communicate your interest to**
- Slack channel link: [#product-management](https://hackforla.slack.com/archives/C010LNXH2JY)
- Slack name of person to contact in the channel @ Ebele

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Project Name: Product Management Community of Practice (Pilot)

Volunteer Opportunity: We are conducting a research to identify the reasons for low attendance at weekly meetings. Outcomes include understanding volunteer motivations, discovering effective meeting practices and how to improve attendance, etc. The research will initially focus on the PM CoP before being implemented by other projects.

Duration: 1-3 months

Who to communicate your interest to

• Slack channel link: #product-management
• Slack name of person to contact in the channel @ Ebele

Post 3

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UX Program Design Manager Role 

**Project Name**: Product Management Community of Practice

**Volunteer Opportunity**: Design a research program to extract process and practice experience from HfLA projects

**Duration**: 1-2 month

**Who to communicate your interest to**
- Slack channel link: #product-management
- Slack name of person to contact in the channel: Olivia

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UX Program Design Manager Role

Project Name: Product Management Community of Practice

Volunteer Opportunity: Design a research program to extract process and practice experience from HfLA projects

Duration: 1-2 month

Who to communicate your interest to

• Slack channel link: #product-management
• Slack name of person to contact in the channel: Olivia