Code for Philly: City as a Service (Hackathon)

Cost of the event covers meals for the day and special hackathon t-shirt. Space is limited.

We’re changing the way city government works with tech and data. You can too.

At Code for Philly (https://codeforphilly.org/), you don’t need to be a technologist to be a civic hacker. It takes a team with set of diverse talents, perspectives, and experience to make a civic tech project successful.

Code for Philly: City Operations is a month-long hackathon kicking off with a weekend of brainstorming, project design, and hacking and presenting demos October 25th.

Teams have a month to work on the development, so this weekend is focused on ideation, intentional project design, and identifying work that will have real impact on communities.

The Saturday hackathon is broken up into two parts:

Project Design

Community members and design thinkers help shape the project to meet real user needs. Good project design makes for higher-quality (and more efficient!) software development.

Most importantly this part of the hackathon sets clear goals for teams and focuses on making real impact.

Project Development

Technical mentors and subject matter experts will help teams jump start the project. The remaining time in the day is spent with projects under development.

If projects need additional time over the weekend to keep the momentum going, join us for an optional day of project development. (https://www.meetup.com/Code-for-Philly/events/233333033/)

As with all of our events, we expect participants to follow the Code for Philly Code of Conduct (https://codeforphilly.org/pages/code_of_conduct).

All Code for Philly work must be civic in nature and use an open source license for the code.

Interested in supporting this hackathon? Send us a note at hello@codeforphilly.org .