Monday City hall looks like Charlie Chaplin’s studio. It was built as part of a WPA project. Peter Koht, our city contact introduces us to everyone. They give us coffee mugs and an office in IT. We call it the fish bowl …

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We live in the world of the Singularity. All of us involved in Technology and IT know that the Haves are pulling away from the Have Nots. Exponentially. Ninety nine percent of US cities are like Anchorage. We have some …

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So it’s Tuesday morning, you’re in your techie office complete with exposed brick, 27″ monitors, ping pong tables, and then you realize that oddly everyone in the office has red on. And there’s chocolate… everywhere. Yup, that’s right, it’s Valentine’s …

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We needed a new website, bad. A technology company without a handsome website, is like a jockey without a horse – going nowhere, fast. The stakes were high, not only did our site have to be chock-full of helpful information, …

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For the past few months, Civic Commons has been led by Nick Grossman, formerly of OpenPlans, who was one of the originators of the project and a key driver of it throughout its history. This month, Nick is going to …

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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 …

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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 …

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At a few weeks into the development of the Brigade program a status summary becomes useful. Here is what has happened thus far: We connected with civic hacker communities throughout the country. More cities join weekly. These “alpha” cities have …

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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 …

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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 …

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