Blog
December 15, 2021
Sharing Gratitude
OpenOakland welcomed nearly 150 volunteers over the course of 2021! We're blown away by the dedication of so many, despite the tumult and challenges of the year. Earlier this month, we took a moment to pause and invite our brigade to recognize each others' perseverance, contributions and commitment to this community we're all building together. Here's what our volunteers had to share with each other...
December 13, 2021
Moving the Leadership Election Cycle (Nov. Steering Committee Recap)
Last month, our Steering Committee focused on governance, approving changes to OpenOakland’s elections cycle and committing to efforts that we hope will make brigade participation more accessible and representative...
October 21, 2021
Progress on OpenOakland’s Priority Areas
Progress may feel slow to many of us, even invisible sometimes. But we’ve actually made some meaningful changes this year as a result of establishing brigade priorities...
October 4, 2021
September Steering Committee Recap
We had a light crowd at this month’s Steering Committee meeting last Tuesday but still managed to cover a lot of ground...
September 12, 2021
OpenOakland's Priority Areas
How do we ensure that all members have a voice and those voices are not only heard but are able to shape decision-making? Earlier this year, OpenOakland defined a set of priority areas based on existing member feedback...
August 23, 2021
August Steering Committee Recap
We had a light crowd at this month’s Steering Committee meeting last Tuesday but still managed to cover a lot of ground...
July 28, 2021
July Steering Committee Recap
Accountability came up more than once at this month’s Steering Committee meeting, as we discussed two core action items: hiring professional expertise to support culture change and reviving our former Civic User Testing program to ensure impacted audiences are more directly involved in developing and validating our project work...
July 10, 2021
Voices: Sean Martinez of OpenOakland
OpenOakland’s volunteer Treasurer/Recorder talks to us about the unique perspective his intersectionality brings to the brigade, the role of empathy in policy making, and the challenges—and joy—of learning and growing from a diverse community...
June 19, 2021
June Steering Committee Recap
Lots of great discussion about new project ideas, synthesizing member feedback, returning to in-person meetups, and more...
February 23, 2021
OpenOakland Voices: Delivering Services to Oakland's Unhoused Communities
OpenOakland Voices Homelessness
The Code for America Oakland Community Fellows discuss their work with the city designing an app to help front-line workers connect Oakland's unhoused communities with the services they need, how the South African Zulu principle of Ubuntu fuels their design work, the challenges of government platform constraints, and so much more.