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by saikat 3577 days ago
Project Name: Brand New Congress Technology

Project Description: Brand New Congress is an initiative to primary most of the existing incumbents in Congress with a representative group of progressive people who all agree to enact an aggressive progressive platform once they are elected. You can learn more about our goals and what we're trying to do on https://brandnewcongress.org. The tech team at Brand New Congress works on a variety of tools that will help bring about the revolution, and we are currently focusing a lot on expanding our website and making it way more awesome.

What do you hope to build this month? Our main focus this month is to create an awesome events portal like map.berniesanders.com v2.0 (https://github.com/BrandNewCongress/website/issues/98), update our dashboard to make it the central hub of where all our volunteers are looking everyday to see how BNC is doing (https://github.com/BrandNewCongress/dashboard), and updating our current sign up and donation flow (https://github.com/BrandNewCongress/website/issues/85). In general, we'd love to use these tasks as a way to find someone that would be willing to take on a leadership role and be able to commit a decent amount of time every week to keep our website updated and think up new ways to use our site/tech stack.

What kind of skills do you need? Our projects are currently largely Javascript/React based. We're starting to play around with Apollo and GraphQL as our data layer, but don't worry if you don't already know about those technologies as they are pretty new and we'll teach you.

Link to your GitHub or somewhere else you'd like to onboard new contributors, like your project management software or chat room. https://github.com/BrandNewCongress/welcome