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The first annual do_action_mtl Hackathon for Montreal nonprofit organizations will take place in the Shopify offices on Saturday, October 14, 2017. This will be the first do_action event in North America.
do_action hackathons are community-organized events that are focussed on using WordPress to give deserving charitable organisations their own online presence. Each do_action event includes participants from the local WordPress community coming together to plan and build brand new websites for a number of local nonprofits in one day.
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Role descriptions
Project Manager – you’re the glue between the team and the nonprofit organization. You’ll contact the non-profit organization before the day in order to get specific requirements from them and do some pre-planning for the event. You’ll also lead the planning with your team prior to the event and will keep everyone on-task during the event. High-level project goals are your priority.
Web Designer – your job is to devise a design direction for the project that fits the needs and goals of your organization. You’ll then fully develop this direction into a website design. The exact tools and procedures you use to this end are up to you and your team to agree upon.
Web Developer – you will be bringing the website to live by coding the design created by your team’s Web Developer. Whether you base your work on a theme or start off from scratch is up to you and your team to decide and agree upon.
QA Tester – your job will be to make sure that the final product performs well across a number of representative devices and browsers. The tools you use for this purpose are up to you to decide on.
Content Manager – your task will be to work with the content provided by the nonprofit organization. You may have to write some content from scratch as well as adjust existing content. This may include writing CTAs, working on a consistent tone for the entire website, and devising a content strategy and information architecture for the website that your team will be building. You will then populate the new website with the final content.
Beirut’s first ever do_action charity hackathon will be taking place on 8 July 2017, 8:00 – 21:00.
At do_action, the Lebanese WordPress community will be building websites for 3 different non-profit organisations in one day.
We have selected the non-profits that we will be working with this year and you can see all of them in the form below. If you would like to participate in the hackathon and work on one of the sites, then please select the non-profit that you would like to work with, select your role on the team, and then fill in your details. Please also make sure you have look at the participant’s guide for some info on how the day will work.
As always, we’re looking for Social Media Managers, Content Managers, Project Managers, Designers, Developers, and Quality Assurance Testers for each of the teams, so if you have any experience managing websites in any capacity then you can participate!
We’re pleased to announce the date for Jo’burg’s first annual do_action WordPress Charity Hackathon that will be taking place on 4 February 2017.
We’re really excited to get the community together for a great cause.
The day will start at 9am with breakfast and a briefing from the project manager. We will then work until 5pm with a lunch being served as well. Drinks and coffee will be available.
With last year’s event being such a success, we’re pleased to announce Cape Town’s fourth annual do_action WordPress Charity Hackathon that will be taking place on 15 July 2017 at Workshop 17.
At do_action, the Cape Town WordPress community will be building websites for 10 different non-profit organisations in one day – all of the sites will be hosted for free for life by Hetzner.
For a sampling of some of the sites built at previous do_action events, have a look here:
We have selected the non-profits that we will be working with this year and you can see all of them in the form below. If you would like to participate in the hackathon and work on one of the sites, then please select the non-profit that you would like to work with, select your role on the team, and then fill in your details. Please also make sure you have look at the participant’s guide for some info on how the day will work.
As always, we’re looking for Social Media Managers, Content Managers, Project Managers, Designers, Developers, and Quality Assurance Testers for each of the teams, so if you have any experience managing websites in any capacity then you can participate!
This will be the third annual do_action event in Cape Town and the community couldn’t be more excited. We have a nicely varied selection of non-profits this year and we’re looking forward to serving them.
The Cape Town do_action events have traditionally been exciting, entertaining and hugely rewarding – not to mention endlessly beneficial to the non-profit organisations that are involved in the day. This year promises to be even better with a lot of refinements to the process and plenty of great organisations on board.
This year’s event will be taking place as part of the Mandela Day weekend on 16 July 2016 at the Bandwidth Barn in the Woodstock Exchange. Registration starts at 8am and work will begin at 9am.
We are proud to be included as an official Mandela Day action.
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