Code for Philly volunteers give back to our community by donating their skills and time towards not-for-profit, civic-minded, open source projects. Browse our community’s project directory to identify where you can volunteer.

New to Volunteering?

If you’re new to volunteering or creating your own project, please check out our Projects 101 Blueprint slides.

For detailed advice on starting your own project, check out our own github ‘getting started’ project repo.

FYI - All our Projects 101 content is open source. Submit your own pull request to make it better with your own suggestions!

Remember, you’re a part of a national community of civic hackers

Check out Code for America’s project page for more opportunities to volunteer or for inspiration on the next project to start here in Philly.

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Gatekeeper Maintaining

GateKeeper is a web application designed to sit between internal API endpoints and public users, acting as a proxy. It provides a central facility for logging, analyzing, rate-limiting, and credentialing access.

 Public Site  Developers

Emergence Maintaining

A PHP- and NodeJS- development and deployment environment for Web 3.0

Small list of sites and services powered by emergence

  • http://codeforphilly.org
  • http://appsforphilly.org
  • http://2015.phillytechweek.com/
  • http://2014.phillytechweek.com/
  • http://2014.designphiladelphia.org/
  • http://septa.mobi
  • http://jarv.us
  • http://devnuts.com
  • http://emr.ge
  • http://scienceleadership.org
  • http://slate.is
  • http://dynamicwear.com
  • http://golive.tv
  • http://educonphilly.org
  • http://2010.tedxphilly.com
  • http://2011.phillytechweek.com/
  • http://2012.phillytechweek.com/…
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Apps for Philly Maintaining

A living catalog of apps built for Philadelphians

Working Features

  • Basic CRUD for apps

Roadmap

Mentions

Mentions would be a new object in the AppsForPhilly database that tracks URLs for News stories, blog posts, notable tweets, etc that mention an app in the catalog. Another object, AppMentions, will link apps with their mentions.

Use cases

  • Hackathon organizers will bookmark stories following their events, tagging all the apps that each mentions
  • App creators will tag their own app with any updates or new media they post so the public will see it at the…
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