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Code for America has been successfully using brigades to build new tools that help with local civic issues all across the country. There are many best practices we can take from that experience to help us get moving quickly with this model in our community. If you’ve been involved in a Code for America brigade, we’d be very interested to hear your thoughts.

Benefits of joining a Brigade

• Opportunity: Joining a brigade is a unique opportunity to work with the core engineering team and participate in work onsite at Menlo Park
• Recognition: The work of brigade members will be showcased widely with the community both online as well as at events, like at ONOS Build
• Experience: Taking part in a brigade is a great opportunity, especially for students, to get experience in network engineering and is a great stepping stone to possibly work at ON.Lab or other member organizations
• Acceleration: Helping a brigade deliver a feature will get work that you care about into an official ONOS release much more quickly than it would without the brigade's efforts.

Active Brigades

We’re currently starting to get brigades formed around a few key ONOS areas.  We're considering this to be a pilot of this model and if it is successful we will look at how to scale up this effort going forward.

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