A Google Summer of Code: Civic Developer Tools
Last fall, Luigi Montanez and I were sitting in the auditorium at the International Open Data Conference brainstorming about ways to get developers more interested in civic coding. He had just...
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Ronaldo’s CfA Summer
As one of the first interns at CfA, I am pleased with my experience with both CFA and Google Summer of Code. This summer I was assigned to develop PHP libraries on existing government related projects....
View ArticleJustin’s CfA Summer: Ruby & World Bank Data
When the summer started off, we broke into teams of two or three and worked on to build out developer tools for our chosen datasets, though soon enough we were constantly conferring and getting advice...
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A Data Liberation Walkthrough
Last time I wrote about how to build a US-wide farmers’ market API in under an hour. Today, I want to walk through a larger challenge to highlight some of the tools & techniques we are using at...
View ArticleGitHub Hits 1 Million – Thanks for Hosting Our Movement
Last night, Github held a thank you party to celebrate a huge milestone, 1 million users. To put that in perspective, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the US employs around 1.3 million...
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See Click Mural
Moments after giving a talk on open data and code reuse at the Code for America Summit, Ben Berkowitz (SeeClickFix) and Aaron Ogle (CfA) grabbed me and said, “can we make a simple map mashup of all the...
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Extreme Heroku: A Polyglot PaaS Civic Application!
Code for America fellows are presented with a unique and fun challenge: Create innovative web applications using bleeding edge technologies that cities can eventually host themselves. The issue there...
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196 Github Repositories
At the time of this writing our GitHub page has 196 repositories: github.com/codeforamerica Everything that we build at Code for America is a open source. On our Github we have various government API...
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Last summer, I created the Python Open311 API wrapper for Code for America (I was a Google Summer of Code intern then, I’m a fellow now), and now want to introduce its successor, Three:...
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Full speed ahead on Streetmix
Our humble beginnings. We look so young! (Photo by Ezra Spier.) Six months ago, the Fellows came together for its first hackathon, and there, we created the initial prototype for Streetmix. Since then,...
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