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Check out the data and APIs available for #DemHack2016!

We like to make hackathons be about more than code and about more than products. With a new mayor and new priorities, a presidential primary and Democratic National Convention, a mess of new councilpersons, and more than a few groups abuzz about millenials in public office, there hasn’t been a better, or more important time, to be a civic hacker and improve Philly democracy. Read this post about how you can contribute to hacking democracy whether it’s with code or ideas. Join us 3/18-3/20!

Hour-by-hour schedule for the Friday night Community Needs Assessment and Saturday-Sunday Hackathon

Our first signature hackathon of the year is coming up, and we need your help planning the best DemHack yet.

Now and then we like to reflect on the great work you - the brigade! - are bringing to Philadelphia. Dave Brindley saw a problem in his neighborhood and set out to fix it. Now, his project NotInPhilly.org is expanding to other areas in the city.

Good News Everyone! From time to time, there are changes that impact the brigade as a whole. On those occasions, we’ll make a brigade update (like the one you’re about to read). We've grown a lot over the last year at Code for Philly, and we have even more planned for 2016. Keep reading to see what’s coming up and what's changing!

We did some great stuff in 2015. Well, a lot of great stuff. Here are some highlights.

Help us welcome Corey Abramson, the newest addition to the Code for Philly leadership team!

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Code for Philly now has an official Code of Conduct and anti-harassment policy.

Dedicated sessions will run parallel to the unconference, and our community collaborators will lead these breakouts on a variety of topics within the tracks

Dedicated sessions will run parallel to the unconference, and our community collaborators will lead these breakouts on a variety of topics within the tracks

Apps for Philly Sustainability: Unconference and Hackathon is a catalyzing event that brings together sustainability professionals, city partners, entrepreneurs, students, and technologists to work collaboratively on one of the most complex problems we face in the modern world.

The schedule for Apps for Philly Sustainability: Unconference and Hackathon

SustyHack2015 is part unconference, part hackathon and an event part of State of Young Philadelphia organized by Young Involved Philadelphia

Projects used for osmp 2015

Meet the mentees of 2015

Our incredible mentors for the 2015 cohort

osmp2015 is looking for designers to lend their talents!

We're a little over half-way through osmp 2015 and our teams have finally gotten to the good part! Read more about the projects teams and what they're up to.

Today, HeadRoom announced details of their first Innovator of the Year Award, powered by PECO. The competition will create a forum for employees, entrepreneurs and inventors throughout the region to spotlight how technology is being used or could be used to create a product service or process. The winner of the competition will receive a $5,000 grant from PECO and a one-year residency at HeadRoom to support the development of their innovation.

Welcome the first Code for Philly Executive Team members and Executive Director