Gratis Prototyping
Gratis is a platform that connects restaurants that have surplus food with shelters to provide a solution to the hunger problem in Philadelphia.
Civic Projects Directory 266
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.
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Not in Philly Testing
Not in Philly
Being built in the open at Notinphilly.org
Nice write up on the project is at: https://codeforphilly.org/blog/not_in_philly_cleans_house
In return for a 6 month commitment to go out once a week to pick up the litter on a block, we supply citizens the resources (bags and a trash grabber) and incentives (gift cards drawn from member pics of their cleaned block #notinphilly on Instagram).
Drop us a line at notinphilly@gmail.com. We also like to chat on slack, https://notinphilly.slack.com/
The to-do…
Septa Ninja Testing
- Real time and accessibility problems can take time to reach SEPTA control center
- Riders have ability to share issues quicker than workers can
- Mimic and improve Boston’s civic transit app - http://mbta.ninja
- Create a "Waze-like" app for train issues that can reach riders in real time
Get set up - see our README page
For details of features/bugs you can work on go to Github issues
Here is the [Google docs…
Indego-Flow Commenting
Monitoring Indego bike share to monitor bike arrivals and departures at specific stations.
Could be helpful for determining best way to handle and re-distrbute bike.
VoteWise.net Prototyping
VoteWise
Using Mongo, NextJS
2 min Video https://player.vimeo.com/video/408236980
VoteWise.net is a non-partisan non-profit website that connects voters, organizations, and politicians without advertising dollars getting in the way. Right now, politicians have serious challenges reaching voters without advertising. This means that politicians have to waste a lot of time begging for money instead of doing what they want to do — help the community. This often forces politicians to listen more closely to the people who give them money than they do to the voters. Likewise,…
Unlock Philly Maintaining
Using open data and crowd sourcing our mission is to make Philadelphia a more accessible city that welcomes and embraces people of all ages and abilities.
We are "building with, not for" and doing our best to ensure that our meetup spaces and tools are accessible. CityCoho is completely wheelchair accessible including the restrooms; Devnuts' entrance is wheelchair accessible and the restroom is large and on the same level, but there are no grab bars. The seating at both spaces is wheelchair friendly.
An accessible website/app is our number one priority. We value all contributions that…
