Code for San Francisco manages a large number of accounts for various purposes, including documentation, forms/surveys, event management, and social media accounts. This outlines those pieces of software along with some tips on what you might find.
Airtable
Airtable is where you’ll find our forms, surveys and data. In particular, you’ll find the Membership Info that we rely on for outreach to specific individuals based on skills. This is the best resource for understanding our engagement and diversity.
AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of our hosting options for apps and data science. Currently being used by the Data Science team. We have monthly quotas set up for alerts.
Envoy
Back when we met in person, we used Envoy. This is a great check-in system for in-person (free) events, and provides critical attendance information.
Eventbrite
Eventbrite is how we run and paid operate events, typically in-person events. Eventbrite allows for tracking tickets, registration, checking-in attendees, and more.
We have a Facebook nonprofit organization with a lively following. Great for posting the latest news and upcoming events.
Firebase
Firebase is used for our link shortener. See Using the Link Shortener for more info.
GitHub
All of our projects are open source, with code and tasks freely available on GitHub. Every project that uses code, uses GitHub. It’s recommended that ALL projects use GitHub for project task boards as a standard, as this is the number one place where projects are visible to the outside world.
We have several google accounts, but the most common one is [email protected]. This account is used as the default account for other online apps so we can ensure proper turnover (as people come and go, [email protected] stays the same). In particular, this is used for docs on Google Drive and domains and email accounts via Google Admin.
Heroku
Some of our products are hosted on Heroku, including Intentional Walk. This SAAS product allows teams to quickly standup application servers and resources.
LastPass
The account of accounts, LastPass is where all central shared accounts are stored to ensure long-term viability of the brigade.
We have a LinkedIN company and it’s very underutilized. This could be a key to our career networking at Code for San Francisco.
MailChimp
Mailchimp is used for distributing our newsletter and the associated analytics that come from it.
Meetup
Meetup is our central portal for all events, including opening announcements (weekly hack night), paid events, and everything in between. This accounts for a large portion of our recruitment. We use a pro account grandfathered in from Code for America. When new events are added, be sure to announce them on Meetup!
NameCheap
We may have some domains at Namecheap. I’m not entirely sure.
Netlify
Netlify is on of our hosting / domain accounts. It’s used to dynamically generate pages based on github code, such that when github is updated a new static webpage is generated from said code. Netlify has PoliceTrends, the PANDA project, and archived version of our website, and a few domains.
Notion
Notion is where our wiki and most recent product design notes are maintained.
Slack
Slack. Our community hub. Where we meet and communicate, both for video calls and asynchronous chats.