The Code for America model puts questions first, coding later. So if you were to ask us what the fellows will build, or the Brigade deploy, or the Accelerator start up — we honestly couldn’t say. This makes the task of weaving together common threads sometimes difficult. As our Government Relations Director mentioned last week,Read… Read more »
This weekend the Code for America fellows shipped out. As one of the four members on Team Chicago, I arrived at O’Hare on Saturday night with a month’s worth of luggage in tow and caught a taxi to what would be my home for February. As a fellow serving with the City of Chicago, ourRead… Read more »
PyCon is the largest annual gathering for the community using the Python programming language. The conference has been growing in size tremendously over the past couple years (this year will feature more than 90 talks and 30 tutorials). Today, Code for America is happy to announce we’ll be one of the F/OSS sponsors — meaningRead… Read more »
Personality tests are a funny thing. They tell you things you’ve always known about yourself but never quite knew how to contextualize. On Monday, January 9, we received our Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) results and spent the morning trying our new qualified identities on for size. The MBTI is a test developed during the 40′sRead… Read more »
Yesterday Code for America played host to the Apps for Heroes event where various tech industry companies demonstrated their wares for Second Lady Dr. Jill Biden and United States Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra. Companies such as Fidelis and JIBE explained the applications they have built to aid our country’s service members’ transition to theRead… Read more »
Today we’re honored to host Dr. Jill Biden and US CTO Aneesh Chopra at Code for America to celebrate and honor the work done by industry and community partners to build tools to support veterans’ employment. The event will start at 3pm PT. A liveblog of the event is available below, and video will beRead… Read more »
As the 2012 Code for America Fellowship kicks off, we’d like to bring all of our friends and supporters to together to welcome our new fellows into the program before they head out for their city residencies. So naturally, we’re throwing a party! On January 26 at 5:30pm, we’re hosting an Open House. Come haveRead… Read more »
Pre-field trip: Debate on dress code – Blazers vs. Track Jackets Travel: Muni with clipper card tutorials for the bikers. SF City Hall Wiki trivia: Dome is the fifth largest in the world. Conference room: Freezing, fellows glad they had track jackets. Speakers: Steve Cawa – Chief of Staff to Mayor Lee Jay Nath –Read… Read more »
Before a line of code was written, a wireframe was sketched, or a GitHub repo was created, the first Friday at Code for America began with us away from our computers and traveling out of San Francisco to the Marin Headlands. With the help of our park guides and facilitators, we explored the park andRead… Read more »
Last Friday, January 5, Code for Amerca co-hosted a press conference with Mayor Lee and the City of San Francisco, where we announced our partnership in CfA’s Seed Accelerator and discussed ways in which we can use technology to improve San Francisco. KGO, the San Francisco Bay Area affiliate of ABC, stopped by for aRead… Read more »