Introduction

Welcome to the Hack for LA TDM Calculator team! This guide will help get you up to speed on what you need to know to get started as a project team member.

Let's get you started!

General

• People have to onboard to Hack for LA through the 2x Monthly meetings we have, prior to joining this project
• Make sure that you can make the Meeting Times
  • See all Meeting Times for TDM in your time zone (there are some new meetings that are not showing up here 2025-03-25) here: https://www.hackforla.org/projects/tdm-calculator
  • WIKI page with list of meetings including Collab (updated 2025-03-25): https://github.com/hackforla/tdm-calculator/wiki/Team-Meetings
• Read the TDM Background Introduction to the Project

Extra reading if you want it

• Check out our Design assets on our Figma wiki page, it's set to anyone can view
• Review the Product One Sheet to get a sense of the business cases and functionality. It has not been updated since 2021-02-25.
  • Team should update it, by making a copy of this OLD Product One Sheet 2021-02-25

How we work

• Our GitHub project board uses Kanban automation and methodology
• Follow these guidelines
  • Items in the prioritized backlog column are not assigned yet
  • Items that are assigned should be in the in progress column
  • Only one person should be assigned to each issue (exception: multiple people can be assigned to an agenda)
  • Only one issue should be assigned to a person (exception: you can be assigned also to agendas)
  • If there are questions, see where to ask them. Please do not assign the person you need help from to the issue. This is how Bonnie got assigned to 100 issues.
  • Provide weekly updates. See the Weekly Update on-Issues page for details
• Every two weeks we meet with the Stakeholders, and we use the following issue for our notes Slide Deck for Stakeholders Meeting #888

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Specific info for Roles

• Research
• Design
• Product
• Developer

Team info

• Team Meetings
• Meeting Agendas

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If you like what you see:

• Join the #tdm-calculator Slack channel
• Post on Slack introducing yourself and identifying that you read this part of the Wiki, why you like this project, how you'd like to contribute, and what relevant skills you have to offer; request a short onboarding meeting. Don't worry if you're green, we will find the right way for you to contribute while learning
• send us your Gmail address
• We will set up an onboarding session for you which will include:
  • Adding you to our shared TDM Calculator Google Drive
    • Once you have access to the TDM Calculator Google Drive, add yourself to the Team Roster
  • Adding you to our TDM GitHub teams (read and write)
  • Adding you to TDM Figma
  • Adding you to TDM 1Password vault (if needed)
• Review our Standard Issue Format, so that you know how to read issues