[IDEA] Onboarding page

[MichaelTamaki]

Speaking from the lens of a prospective volunteer, I'd like to get more information about what to expect at the first meeting, what does work look like on projects, etc. I like how hack for LA does it, for example https://www.hackforla.org/getting-started.

We spoke about this a bit at the mtg 9/18/23. There were some concerns about overwhelming potential volunteers with lots of processes or information. This issue will track progress on this discussion.

[avenmia]

I like how hack for LA does it too, it's simple for people to get started and know the steps. I think organizing the information in a similarly in terms of different stages could be helpful, but open for however people feel it's easiest to get people involved.

Some potential stages for information:

• Info they might like before a meeting
  • What is the group?
  • When/where do we meet
  • What to expect at a meeting?
    • For example, we're part social and part get work done versus only social
    • An onboarding session
    • Meeting people, learning about the group, etc.
• Info for an onboarding meeting
  • What is the group?
  • What are the projects?
  • What does work look like on projects?
  • How do we communicate?
  • How to contribute?
• Info for picking a project
  • What is the project's mission?
  • Who does the project help?
  • Who to talk to about this project? (Who are the stakeholders and who manages the project)
  • What tech stack is used?
  • What coding standards are in place?
  • How much is someone expected to contribute?

The current onboarding process takes me around 30 - 40 minutes to get through, and although new people say it's informative and not too long, it'd be great if there was a page I can direct them to that would shorten the process. Normally, my onboarding goes along the lines of:

• What is the group?
  • A volunteer tech group centered around solving civic issues
• What is our mission?
  • Working with the community to create free and open source projects that help people
• Where are our projects?
  • https://github.com/codewithaloha/
• What are our active projects?
  • Hawaii Zoning Atlas
    • Description of the HZA goal, origin, and tech stack
  • HIERR
    • Description of HIERR goal, origin, and tech stack
  • Our Website
    • Description of the website and tech stack
• Answering questions such as:
  • How can I contribute?
  • What experience is required?
  • How can we report issues?
• Adding people to our slack channel

Tyler also started an onboading guide here: https://github.com/CodeWithAloha/docs/blob/main/ONBOARDING.md#onboarding-guide

A lot of these questions are relevant to #25

[kobebuckley]

V1 of Onboarding Guide Currently Hosted here: https://cwa-onboarding.s3.amazonaws.com/onboarding-overall/index.html