Right now, the URL for "Local Identity" under the "About" section points to: http://brigade.codeforamerica.org/pages/local

This page doesn't exist. Instead, the URL should be: http://brigade.codeforamerica.org/pages/about#local

I'm trying to Sign In with Github on the sign in page and I get the following Rails error

"We're sorry, but something went wrong."

at the following url

http://brigade.codeforamerica.org/members/auth/github/callback?code=14359fffbc40d3093101&state=

http://brigade.codeforamerica.org/applications/6

See also #46 & #45

Remove "Click to Apply" and change the text below it to:

Our inaugural class of the Brigade Captains program is currently underway. Classes are annual. The current class will run from September 1 to August 31. Future classes may start bi-annually. Don't wait until the next class of Brigade Captain to get started as a leader and organizer for Brigade in your city! Email the Brigade Support Team and let us know that your interested [MAILTO LINK, ?subject=I want to lead and organize in...]. Create a Brigade Meetup [LINK], invite your friends and hold your first meeting to choose an activity [LINK].

Using MapBox

Steps

http://brigade.codeforamerica.org/deployed_applications

Outcome

An HTTP 500 error. ("We're sorry, but something went wrong")

Expected

The page should load.

We use Meetup Everywhere to organize Brigade meetings across the country. However, there are practical benefits in other platforms and constraints in Meetup Everywhere that too great to ignore & we can't insist that every brigade use Meetup Everywhere.

As we start to see preferences toward other platforms for scheduling regular meetings besides Meetup Everywhere we are concerned about fragmenting our ability to show them all in one place.

We need to figure out a way to let brigades choose their meeting scheduling platform and also make it practical to group all.

The main alternatives that brigades are using are Facebook & paid Meetup. A calendar feed should also be considered as possible input to a group all capability.

"Here’s how you can deploy civic apps where live:"

Found at: http://brigade.codeforamerica.org/pages/apps

This page (http://brigade.codeforamerica.org/locations/10/deployed_applications) should:

• Show who is affiliated in each location, for example:
  http://brigade.codeforamerica.org/users?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=Detroit
  http://brigade.codeforamerica.org/users?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=Norfolk
  • The view should include the user's gravatar
• Be reskinned
  • do a better job of showing status

Under features

Insert the temporary password and change instructions into the welcome letter sent to new members after they sign up (greeting.html.haml).

Example:

%p
%em
You have been issued a strong random password delivered over unencrypted email.
Your random password is:
#{:erb params[:user][:password]}
You may keep this random password in your records and enter it to log in or you may change your password to something you prefer. To change your password visit your profile [LINK to PROFILE] and change your password using your randomly assigned password

Level of effort:
Easy.

Rationale:
When a new member signs up on the brigade home page he or she is issued a random password to keep sign up fields down to name & email. The random password is not revealed to the new member but could be delivered in the welcome letter (/app/views/signup_mailer/greeting.html.haml & greeting.text.haml). Most new members discover the "Edit" link on their new profile page immediately after signing in. Editing a profile requires a password. These members cannot edit their profiles because they don't know their password. Many try to change their password, which requires the existing, random password. This also fails. These members leave confused. Many of these members write brigade-info for help.

Our community is comprised of of members, not users! Users = blecch. :^)

UPDATE: See https://github.com/brigade-hrva/brigade-badges/wiki

As a Brigade member I want to show how I can earn Achievement Badges for things like

• Opening Data
• Redeploying an app
• Committing to an open source civic software repo
• Leading an open government initiative
• Field testing an app

Forum was renamed. Link points to old forum name.

New address:
https://groups.google.com/a/codeforamerica.org/forum/#!forum/maine-brigade

Howdy!

The sign-up form (asking for name/e-mail) appears to spit out the standard Rails error page when putting in your info and either hitting Return or clicking "Submit":
http://brigade.codeforamerica.org/pages/openimpact

For funsies, if I have time today, I'll clone the source and try to replicate locally.

As a visitor I want to...
...see where Brigades are located.
...see which Locations have Brigades.
...search for Brigades by Location.

Points to /codefortulsa but should be /code-for-tulsa

Add to About page:

License item at top anchored to section below:

Brigade is licensed under Creative Commons, Attribution, Non-Commercial, No-Derivs
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

Add to footer:
CC License [link to License anchor in about page]

Should:

• show gravatars

App no. 29 on Brigade is "Open Government Initiative", node ID 15682

http://civiccommons.org/apps/open-government-initiative

It has not been pulled by the CC rake task after several days:

http://brigade.codeforamerica.org/applications
http://brigade.codeforamerica.org/applications/29

(If someone can instruct me on where/how to check error logs I will learn how to do that, too.)

On locations' deployed applications pages the second column header on the table of members does not match the field. The header is Location, the field is Skills. The headers should be Skills.

screen capture:
https://skitch.com/kevincurry/ecpwb/the-code-for-america-brigade-deployed-applications

example:
http://brigade.codeforamerica.org/locations/52/deployed_applications

Quick note on a broken link:

On the Open Data page:
http://brigade.codeforamerica.org/pages/opendata

the "start an open government initiative" link is broken.

It currently points to:
http://brigade.codeforamerica.org/pages/pages/ogi

It should point to:
http://brigade.codeforamerica.org/pages/ogi

Just noticed; if I have time I'll submit a pull, but a very easy fix from your end.

http://brigade.codeforamerica.org/locations/39/deployed_applications

returns standard rails error "Something went wrong" (see also issue reported that custom errors aren't working)

Note: There is a user and a deployed application but no brigade. Not sure how that can happen.

https://skitch.com/kevincurry/85c8w/the-code-for-america-brigade

This may have started when icons for apps were changed to something other than the wrench & hammer

When a new member registers on the platform, the new member should receive a welcome email:

Welcome to Code for America Brigade!

We are glad you decided to join a strong, growing network of civic minded, volunteer hackers who want to help municipal governments and community organizations make better use of the web.

Thank you!

Here are two things that will happen next:

1. You will be added to the [email protected] discussion forum using the email address you provided here.
2. We will attempt to match you with a local brigade leader or send you information on how to start a brigade if there is not one in your area

Here are three things you should do next:

1. Complete your profile and confirm your contact preferences
2. Get to know Brigade Activities [LINK]
3. Browse the discussion forum Introduce yourself by replying to the Introductions thread [LINK]

Best Regards,
Kevin & Jack
[email protected]

The favicon is a default icon. We need a Brigade icon up there! Can by start using the helmet.

Several of the apps have dedicated developer lists. Some apps need lists created for them. Add an group email to the model for application and show in views.

http://support.socrata.com/forums/

https://groups.google.com/a/codeforamerica.org/forum/#!forum/boston-brigade

No visible sign in/sign out button on the Brigade pages. :(

It seems that
on line 49: gem 'rmagick', '> 2.13.1', :require => 'RMagick'
and on line 135: gem "capybara-webkit", '> 0.9.0'
are generating errors during bundle install. Commenting out those 2 lines results in a successful install.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/twin-cities-brigade

There are duplicate brigades.

For example, there are 3 Code for America Brigades. One is Code For America (capital "F").

Brigades should not allow duplicates. Duplicates should be case insensitive.

Create badge/patch/iconic designs for achievements such as:

• Opening Data
• Redeploying an app
• Committing to an open source civic software repo
• Leading an open government initiative
• Field testing an app

http://brigade.codeforamerica.org/applications/8

Descriptions should be pulled in via CC API. Adopt-a-hydrant description in CC is correct, so not sure what's up.

"Something went wrong"

http://brigade.codeforamerica.org/admin/deployed_application/new

Open San Diego is out of order here:
http://brigade.codeforamerica.org/pages/connect

After submitting the Get Started form the "Something Went Wrong" message is returned.
The new Member is registered with Brigade.
A welcome letter is not sent.

This is high priority

New members receive an automated Welcome Letter from brigade-info@ that asks them to reply (to brigade-info@) with an introduction.

Change the From/Reply and instructions to direct the member to reply to brigade@.

This may require a change to the language and instructions of the Welcome Letter

Files:
https://github.com/codeforamerica/brigade/blob/master/app/mailers/signup_mailer.rb
https://github.com/codeforamerica/brigade/blob/master/app/views/signup_mailer/greeting.html.haml
https://github.com/codeforamerica/brigade/blob/master/app/views/signup_mailer/greeting.text.haml

When a new member registers with the platform I want to automatically welcome the member and I want to be notified of the new member via email to [email protected]

So that the new member will be properly welcomed into Brigade.
So that I can follow up with a personalized reply.

Reply to new member with:
https://docs.google.com/a/codeforamerica.org/document/d/1FPxjD1GXSYbqEmh2sYZ2wSC7gQQjM3P_AdjVq6cxicw/edit

Send to brigade-info:
New Member, [NAME], from [CITY] has joined Brigade. Please take a moment to welcome [NAME].

[Link to Profile]

There is no way for a member to delete his or her profile after it has been created. Insert a "Delete Profile" option on the member's profile page. Be sure to confirm that delete is the intended action.

There should be a more direct way for users to register with the platform when they are want to connect but are not yet committed to an app.

Type "Detroit" on the home page. Do you you know what to do next? If not, we need to fix the page that shows for locations where nothing is yet happening.

This Brigade is not active. Members should be connected to Code for Hawaii.

https://github.com/CfABrigadeHamptonRoads

Org was renamed to:
https://github.com/brigade-hrva

There is no option when editing a profile for a member to change his or her email address.

When editing your user profile and picking a location, it doesn't sort alphabetical and makes it challenging to pick a location.

or "Member Profile"?

https://skitch.com/kevincurry/eqyh8/the-code-for-america-brigade-users

As a Brigade member I want to earn achievements when I:

• Contribute to one of the approved (TBD) open source, civic repos in GitHub

As an admin I cannot set the Name attribute for an Application or Deployed Application in Rails Admin. Name is only pulled in from Civic Commons via Node ID.

As an admin I need to be able to create an Application and/or Deployed Application with a custom Name; i.e., a Name that I type in Rails Admin.

So that I can create show pages for projects that are not strictly App deployments, ex., Tuscon, AZ is working on an Open Government Initiative. OGI is a "re-deployable" thing but it is not an app.

The attributes for projects and deployable apps are the same and the show pages should be the same. There are no attributes for custom projects that are not applicable to Application/Deployed Application. Given the ability to set a custom Name we should have what is needed.

Note that that a custom named application will NOT have a Civic Commons Node ID. The platform needs to handle Applications and/or Deployed Applications that do not have Node IDs from CC.

Errship gem should display the correct error page when an error occurs but it's not happening

Example

If you load up http://brigade.codeforamerica.org/locations the 404 page should render but instead the default Rails 404 renders
If you go to http://brigade.codeforamerica.org/notfound then the correct 404 page shows

This also happens with 500 pages

http://brigade.codeforamerica.org/error
versus
http://brigade.codeforamerica.org/deployed_applications
Which renders the default Rails 500 page instead of the nice 500 page.