by Patrick | Dec 5, 2017 | Newsletter
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...
by Eric Jackson | Nov 22, 2017 | Newsletter
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...
by Eric Jackson | Nov 7, 2017 | Newsletter
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...
by Eric Jackson | Oct 24, 2017 | Newsletter
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...
by Eric Jackson | Oct 10, 2017 | Newsletter
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...
by Eric Jackson | Sep 26, 2017 | Newsletter
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...
