2. Share job opportunities and professional relationships in a way that is deemed fair and transparent by the Hack Night community.

My two thoughts on this are:

1. By breakout group, participants who have a professional relationship to the project should disclose that information.

2. We have a jobs board on the agenda every week, which seems to be working well.

Disclosing related professional relationships to a breakout group seems like a way of addressing conflicts of interest. I’m more talking about providing visibility into who all has a professional relationship with/interest in speakers, promoting projects, and in the civic tech ecosystem here in Chicago.

Potentially also providing info about project structures, rates, et al so that people can learn how to get into various related fields.

Essentially, mentoring and networking in addition to disclosing general professional interest.

We’ve discussed ways of measuring diversity in participation at Hack Night (questions asked, groups led), but I haven’t seen us discussing how to measure professional outcomes. What would be a measures of success for the agenda and jobs channel, for example?

I'm excited about the Sales in Civic Tech group as something that could be helpful for this. I'm gonna sit in on one of those sessions soon.

An idea that got mentioned is maybe doing something similar to what some conferences and events do: badges or stickers that identify vendors. We don't do nametags, so that could be tricky. I would love some help imagining other ways to provide visibility into that.

One way I've been thinking about it is this: are we learning enough from each other that people are able to move from being a volunteer or someone who is learning into getting paid work, if that's what they'd like to do? I