Posted on January 8, 2013 by Peter Koht in Gov2.0, Guest Post, News, Santa Cruz
Peter Koht is the Economic Development Coordinator for the City of Santa Cruz. The City of Santa Cruz is the smallest community to ever partner with Code for America, but it had one of the largest problems to solve: …
Posted on October 24, 2012 by Brian Busch in Accelerator, Civic Startups, Commentary, Santa Cruz
Captricity is one of the seven civic startups in the inaugural class of the CfA Accelerator. I was sure my little dream of starting a side-project, small business were going to die. Looking at a multicolor zoning map and trying to make sense …
Posted on September 5, 2012 by Lauren Dyson in 2012 fellows, Detroit, Philadelphia, Santa Cruz
RSVP for Part II of our Fellowship Projects webinar series, at 10 a.m. Pacific (1 p.m. Eastern) on September 18, 2012. Register here. More than eighty of you joined us for our first-ever Fellowship Projects webinar. It was a fantastic …
Posted on August 28, 2012 by Tamara Shopsin in 2012 fellows, Design, News, Santa Cruz
Day 1 of being in Santa Cruz, Calif. The maps around city hall are confusing, out of date, and the display cases are fogged up: City’s website is no better: CfA January training: “Look for quick wins.” I make a …
Posted on July 5, 2012 by Jim Craner in 2012 fellows, Open Data, Santa Cruz
So your city has deployed a shiny new data catalog as part of your new open data initiative…now what?! Cities produce a great deal of data, all of which is probably interesting to *somebody* out there. Given our limited municipal …
Posted on June 29, 2012 by Jennifer Pahlka in #meta, Commentary, Santa Cruz
I’d like to share with you a sentence that makes me very happy and optimistic about the future of government. It’s from the website that CfA Fellows Ruthie BenDor and Tamara Shopsin are building to help new businesses in Santa …
Posted on March 20, 2012 by Jim Craner in 2012 fellows, News, Santa Cruz
As one of three Code for America Fellows working with the City of Santa Cruz, I was fortunate to spend five weeks in this beautiful city learning about the people, businesses, organizations, and institutions that make it such a great …
Posted on February 28, 2012 by Tamara Shopsin in 2012 fellows, Commentary, Santa Cruz
8:00 am: People trickle in one by one. A woman is starting a personal training business. She draws her floor plan on the back of a land use form. The city takes the plan though it is missing a dimension. …
Posted on February 16, 2012 by Tamara Shopsin in 2012 fellows, News, Santa Cruz
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 …
Captricity: Why We’re Coding for America
2012 Fellowship Projects Webinar: Part II
