Proposal: g0v.tw as CodeForAll Brigade / International Partner
Previous CfA codeacross/brigade hangout notes
about CfA Brigade
- slides: http://goo.gl/2qb9IA
- Templates:
- City Profile
- Strategic Plan
- Team Structure
- Storyteller
- Community Organizer
- Delivery Lead
Profile: Taiwan
Although CfA typically emphasize on working with local government, we believe in Taiwan it makes more sense working with the central government primarily, as it’s relatively a small place, and most policies are made centrally where local governments are just carrying out the works.
Government
- Jurisdictions & Agencies
- National Development Council / 國發會
- collaborate on Open Data policies
- National Academy for Educational Research / 教育部國家教育研究院
- work with moedict projects
- Directorate General of Highways / 公路總局
- interested in integrating GIS related work from the community into common government portal
- People
- TSAI Yu-ling (aka Jaclyn TSAI), Minister without portfolio, Executive Yuan Officials
- 尤美女 (Yu, Mei-Nu), Legislator
- Open data For Legislative Yuan
- Howard Jyan, Director, Department of Information Management, National Development Council
- Potential Partners
- Ministry of Science and Technology
- Notable Legislation or History
- Apr 2013, Principle for Open Data for Executive Yuan Agencies
- Existing open data portals:
- http://data.gov.tw (hosted by Taiwan Government)
- http://data.g0v.tw (hosted by g0v.tw)
Community
- Potential Brigade Name:
- g0v.tw (preferred), or CodeForTW - a g0v task force
- Foundations:
- Open Culture Foundation (ocf.tw): an umbrella NPO established June 2014 to help open source/data/hardware/standards communities in Taiwan
- Adjacent Networks:
- openlab.taipei
- Green Party Taiwan (network branch)
- Open Source Conferences in Taiwan: OSDC.tw, COSCUP, webconf, pycon, jsdc.tw
- Public Forums / Good Government Organizations
- Mailing list: g0v-general {at} googlegroups.com
- Facebook group: g0v-general
- Discourse: http://community.g0v.tw/
- Event
- Nov 2014, g0v summit (600ppl)
- Major Hackathon (Bi-Monthly, 110ppl)
- Project-oriented Hackathons (spontaneously, 10-40ppl)
Facilities
- Co-working Spaces & Meeting Spaces
- Event Spaces:
- Monthly tech training:
- Bi-Monthly hackathons:
- Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica
- Conference:
- Humanities and Social Science Building (HSSB), Academia Sinica
Potential Brigade Focus & Projects
- g0v infrastructure
- project index
- human resource hub
- hackfoldr.org
- ly.g0v.tw
- open data and refactor For Legislative Yuan
- don-republic
- moedict
- Next Generation Dictionary
- open political contributions
- open data for campaign finance, crowd-source digitization and lobbying for releasing digital data
- data.g0v.tw
2014 Strategic Plan
Group Description
g0v.tw is... (as of 2014Q2)
- a community of deep open-source roots, with:
- ~1000 contributors, ~50 daily-active ones, an irc channel of ~200 people
- 10 major bi-monthly hackathons and ~25 other events
- ~30 projects, ~20 talks by ~10 speakers, ~20 media coverages
- composed of roughly 40% developers, 30% designers, 30% activists/storytellers
- advocating the open-source collaboration model beyond software development
- decentralized do-acracy
hence, g0v.tw would like to have task force acting as liaison in the community, which will:
- lead the international communication efforts
- identify local projects worth sharing and communicate with international network
- share our experiences (collaborating with gov.tw, growing open community) in English
- turn existing projects into internationally reusable components/apps
- connecting projects with public servants in the relevant agencies
This allows us to have a more persistent contact window but still keep the community loosely-structured and decentralized.
The task force shall elect a primary contact person every 6 month.
Brigade Team
Story Teller
- The Storyteller owns the communication streams for their local Brigade. They tell the stories of the Brigade’s impact in their community. This includes writing blog posts, coordinating with local press, connecting with local media, and working with the CfA Communications team to share stories nationally.
- The Storyteller’s areas of focus include:
- Ownership of content, marketing, and social media
- Social media including Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr
- Website
- Blog
- Other content (video, photos, etc.)
- Local press
- Commitment
- Attend hangout for Storyteller Team Members
- writing blog posts, updating social media, and connecting with local press
- Attend Group Hackathon bi-monthly
- It is actually what g0v marcom taskforce is already doing.
Community Organizer
- The Community Organizer is responsible for recruiting and welcoming new members to the Brigade and helping them get oriented. They are the point of contact for members who have questions about how to get started, what to do next, or how to help locally.
- This Community Organizer should know about upcoming member events, be available to attend hack nights to assist with member questions, and create a welcoming environment. This position doesn’t necessarily require technical knowledge.
- The Community Organizer’s areas of focus include:
- Ownership of building and maintaining community
- Recruits new members
- Onboards new members
- Manages Google group
- Manages KKTIX
- Manages IRC
- Helps members move up the ladder of engagement
- Keeps track of membership
- Commitment
- Attend Hangout for Community Organizer Team Members
- Attend bi-monthly group hackathons to orient new members.
- Orientate new members in google group and IRC channel.
- Improve training materials for new members
- g0v levelup - intro to g0v culture, open source, collaboration tools
- g0v academy - field-specific training material (currently just tech-focused)
- g0v frontend-athon - monthly physical meet up for frontend technology training
Project Delivery Coordinator
- Description
- The project delivery coordinator should have a working knowledge of all the projects being hacked on at a given time in the Brigade, understand the needs of those projects, and help members find projects and projects find members.
- The Project Delivery Coordinator ’s areas of focus include:
- turn existing projects into internationally reusable components/apps
- connecting projects with public servants in the relevant departments
- work with ocf.tw to organize local fellowship program
- work with ocf.tw to organize project accelerator program, such as getting founding to recruit full-time developers to develop projects that most folks started at.
- Commitment
- Attend Hangout for Project Lead Core Team Members
- Attend events that generate projects such as hackathons
- Available for a few hours of communication per month on projects
Priorities This Year
- Development projects
- Law Drafting Diff Component - turn bill text diff in Congress project into well-documented reusable component
- (image-based) tabular pdf recognition project - turn what we use for crowd-source digitizing campaign finance into standalone component or service
- g0v project index - work with betaNYC and poplus community to standardize civic tech project metadata
- g0v summit 2014
- Connecting with other efforts in Asia and around the world
- work with NGOs to promote open collaboration, improve data-literacy
Strategy & Tactics
- Bi-Monthly Hackathons
- Monthly Tech Training Program
- Project-based hackathons
- Summer of Code program with Watchout (a PMO social enterprise in Taiwan) to improve congress-related projects
- work with ocf.tw for Project Accelerate Program
Outcomes
- Reusable components for international community: diff tool, image-based pdf processing tool
- Making NGOs more comfortable to propose civic tech project to the tech community
Brain Storming
(discussion here)
(archived discussion)