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melodykramer
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About melodykramer
formerly: NPR, WHYY, WBEZ, National Geographic, Nieman Fellow.
carrboro nc · melodykramer.github.io
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Comment #11561467
We actually have all of our checklists online: https://github.com/18F/onboarding-documents/blob/master/Chec... so you can see exactly what's required. The checklist program has mad…
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Comment #11561452
I checked those - but really wanted the relative task functionality. That was the key feature that we needed (and that our users requested.)
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Comment #11561445
You can see our negotiated ToS here: https://slack.com/terms-of-service/government
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Comment #11552317
This is a great list. (I work at 18F.) Everything we do is available for anyone to fork, adapt, copy, use, etc. Someone could fork our code as a starting point and add the features…
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Comment #11550944
We're automating what we can - i.e. accounts and stuff. But a lot of the tasks are training related i.e. "You have to learn about this or that." You can see the work we've put into…
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Comment #11550073
Yup. I worked with Tony on the tool. That's exactly what we had in mind. We didn't want people going through onboarding to be overwhelmed — and we also didn't want to have to manua…
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Comment #10904984
How have you managed the community in the Slack room while keeping up with your own work?
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Comment #10904970
They can find all of our repositories here: https://github.com/18F And our blog, which details many of our projects, is here: https://18f.gsa.gov/blog/ We occasionally hold hackath…
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Comment #10904511
Would love more feedback on how to do this! (I co-wrote that blog post.)
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Comment #10363006
I work from my home outside of Chapel Hill, NC so my commute is from my bedroom to my home office. I'm in a t-shirt and yoga pants right now. It's the best job I've had - I have au…