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A Code for Asheville 2017 Retrospective
We did it. We made it through 2017. It’s been a stressful year and signs abound that 2018 might be a little eventful too, but I have to say that I’m ending the year in a more hopeful place than I started it. I entered 2017 with a deep sense of apprehension about our...
Open NC Collaborative: Brigades Working Together
North Carolina is lucky not only to have more brigades per capita than any other state, but also to have a network of strong personal relationships that connect them. On top of that, the proximity of Triangle-area brigades to one another helped foster early...
Update on Asheville Traffic Stop Data
Earlier this year, Patrick Conant worked with Ian Mance, an attorney at the Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ), and Dee Williams, chair of the criminal justice committee of the Asheville chapter of the NAACP, to bring racial disparities in traffic stop data...
StoryTell Asheville – Latest Update
We first outlined the idea behind our new stories collection platform in our September 26 newsletter. Since then Jesse Michel has built a minimal version of the project that we can try out for our first couple projects. The project, which we are tentatively...
Writing our principles and values, together…
Jennifer Pahlka, Founder and Executive Director of Code for America, has asked Code for Asheville members for help. During the Brigade Conference, there was a discussion about Code for America's principles and values (for details, see Jennifer Pahlka's post)....
Back from the Brigade Congress
Two members of Code for Asheville attended the Code for America Brigade Congress in Philadelphia last week and had this to say: "For me, there were two important takeaways from the Brigade Congress. I was pleased to see so much interest in criminal justice (2 separate...
Representing Asheville at CityCampNC
CityCampNC is a three-day event that brings together brigades, government workers and community members for presentations, conversation and hands-on problem-solving. The goal is to promote the power of open collaboration to improve how our governments and communities...
Asheville Stories – Kicking Off a New Project
A small group of Code-for-Ashevilleans marked the National Day of Civic Hacking last Saturday by working out details of a story collection project idea that emerged at our last Community Night. We left feeling quite excited about the potential impact on our community...
Code for Asheville at a Crossroads
I walked into my first Code for Asheville meeting in December 2013 at the invitation (well, ok, arm-twisting) of Dave Michelson, co-founder of the brigade together with Scott Barnwell. I walked back out knowing two things: that I had discovered something truly...
Imagining a Better Asheville at Our 8/10 Community Night
Tom Loosemore said digital is about “applying the culture, practices, processes and technologies of the Internet-era to respond to people’s raised expectations.” In the same way, “civic tech” is only about technology in the sense that it transforms what citizens are...