Code for Seattle is a group of volunteers working to improve civic engagement in Seattle through open source technology.

Participate with Code for Seattle by hacking on open source projects, editing SeattleWiki, and organizing events focused on civics and technology.

You’re a programmer, designer, educator, journalist, city employee, or anyone else interested in civics, governance, and technology. Want to learn how to code? Great! Learn while building cool projects with Code for Seattle.

We’re stoked about data, code, design, and education. We’d love for you to get involved.

The list of current Code for Seattle Projects is a good place to jump in!

Keep up with our activities via:

 

Upcoming Meetings: 

Find all upcoming events at our meetup group: http://www.meetup.com/code-for-seattle

 

Available tools & resources

Resources

Go to nwdata.org for a list of data portals and other resources specific to the Pacific Northwest area.

Tools

Code for America, the Open Knowledge Foundation, and other organizations have a bunch of open-source apps that are reusable and directly applicable to civic hacking.

Example tools:

Adopt-a-Hydrant – allow residents to adopt some kind of civic infrastructure, like hydrants.

Shareabouts – a mapping application for crowdsourced info gathering

CKAN – an application for hosting data

 

Code for Seattle is a Code for America Brigade for Seattle, WA.

Read about Code for America's activity in Seattle in 2011.

 

 

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