Friday, May 24th, 2013
from Joe’s team at CTCluster: Joe passed away on April 25, 2013. He died peacefully in his sleep a day after undergoing surgery to remove a tumor. He was 72 years old. Joe grew up outside Detroit, MI. He graduated from Howard University in Washington, D.C. with a BA. He was the son of Joseph
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013
A 21st Century alternative May Day event took place in Jack London Square, one not requiring a march to the barricades to participate. A different kind of revolution was proposed by Jennifer Pahlka, the founder of Code...
Monday, May 6th, 2013
Say you just bought a brand-new, state-of-the-art, high-speed N300-class WiFi router. You and your life partner/significant other each surf the Net separately. You want to catchup on a missed TV show or movie on Netflix and your...
Wednesday, April 24th, 2013
On Monday, a group of Oakland’s civic hackers (the good guys) launched a powerful and simple new tool into the newly announced city budget debate. OpenBudgetOakland.org is an app that allows you to easily dive into different...
Wednesday, April 24th, 2013
When I joined Code for America (CfA), the first question my family and friends asked me was an obvious one: “Do you even code?” The answer is no. I studied political theory and public policy, not Python...
Monday, April 22nd, 2013
It’s not only the City of Oakland that’s reshaping its culture through civic hackathons and a focus on Open Data; the county of Alameda has jumped in in a big way as well. Inspired in part by...
Thursday, July 5th, 2012
Code for America (CFA) is an organization that seeks to help city governments become more efficient and Oakland stands to benefit from this new approach The organization recruits talented programmers from companies like Google, Microsoft and others...
