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We always need help understanding how to better design, implement and test the projects we're associated with. More specific needs are listed per project.

Twin Cities Aid

A webapp to coordinate aid and care in the Twin Cities. https://twin-cities-mutual-aid.org/

We need help with:

  • HTML/CSS/JS coding and code reviews
  • Backend engineers (for help with tasks like https://github.com/Twin-Cities-Mutual-Aid/twin-cities-aid-distribution-locations/issues/174

Renters' Resources

Providing tools and to housing justice advocates and anyone who rents. Rental trend analysis to understand where inequties exist in the Twin Cities rental market.

We need help with:

  • Assessing datasets (no experience necessary)
  • Web application development
  • Web automation
  • Open data requests

Minnesota Academy of Science - STEM Resources Page UX Review

Conducting a user experience analysis of our STEM Resource pages

We need help with:

  • User testing (especially by educators!)
  • STEM experts (students and educators)

MN Pay

Making Minnesota public wage data actually public http://www.mnpay.org/.

We need help with:

  • Open data requests (no programming experience necessary)
  • Python upgrade
  • DevOps/deployment

Adopt-a-Tree Minneapolis

As part of a public awareness campaign of the Minneapolis Park Board and Brewing A Better Forest, Adopt-a-Tree helps residents find trees in need of watering and pledge to keep trees from going thirsty.

We need help with:

  • Refactoring to use React
  • Ruby

For more projects see our GitHub repository