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GitHub Hits 1 Million – Thanks for Hosting Our Movement
Last night, GithubAi??held a thank you party to celebrate a huge milestone, 1 million users. To put that in perspective, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the US employs around 1.3 million software developers. Even factoring in international and …
311: An Example of What’s Right with Government

I spent the day meeting government officials who staff and manage 311 services in the city of Chicago. This is a great example of what’s right in government service delivery in local governments.Ai??
A Google Summer of Code: Civic Developer Tools
Last fall, Luigi Montanez and I were sitting in the auditorium at the International Open Data Conference brainstorming about ways to get developers more interested in civic coding. Ai??He had just completed a whirlwind tour of ruby meetups, conferences and …
Scaling Our Movement
This week, we select finalists for 2012. Over 550 applications came in for just 26 spots in next year’s class. Ai??For me, the response is such a mix of excitement, humility, hopefulness, a little bit of daunting and frankly, a …
ShortStack: The Top Twittering Cities & Counties

This past cycle, we took a stab at collecting all the Twitter handles for cities and counties in ShortStack, our knowledge base of local governments. Out of 1293 accounts across 810 cities and counties (that we found), here’s the top …
ShortStack: City and County Subdomains
I’ve been working lately on a labs product called ShortStack (code). The idea behind it is simple. Can we aggregate information about a city’s technology stack? Ai??For instance, if we know a city website, can we scrape it for data …
Fellows Take Top Prize at Work 2.0

On Sunday, Joel Mahoney and Talin Salway competed and won in the Work 2.0 challenge hosted by API teams from Cotweet, Yammer, Podio, Jexy, Cohuman, and Mashery. buy doxycycline for syphilis. #Buy Doxycycline. where to buy doxycycline for dogs. Their …
Diving Into Cities: 440+ interviews
During the month of February, our fellows literally hit the streets interviewing block watch captains, neighborhood leaders, mayors, IT staff, stakeholders, city department heads, community organization leaders and developers.Ai??Over 28 days, 20 fellows interviewed 440 people in 279 interview sessions, which equated to about 10 a day.
CfA Training: Selling to the Government
As part of our continued push to understand city governments, we invited Charles Blanchet, VP of Sales at Granicus to present the geek’s guide to selling to government. Founded nearly 10 years ago, Granicus enables web streaming and related transparency …