Code for America
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- Your Model is Naive and it’s Not The Territory 0.0 Context Setting Friday, May 30, at the Code for America Summit in a hotel in Washington, D.C. I am in, fittingly, a hallway. I am …
- Kill Your Gods … Ryan Ko , freelance consultant, co-author of this report, principal of RKO Consulting LLC, former Chief of Staff at Code for America, works with a portfolio of governments …
- For Informational Purposes; Product management is hard, a reminder; Shadow IT … Ryan Ko , freelance consultant, co-author of this report, principal of RKO Consulting LLC, former Chief of Staff at Code for America, works with a portfolio of governments …
- Rude; A Financial Services Social Network?; We Should Improve Attribution and Sourcing Somewhat … Jacky Alciné , Union Organizer, formerly Code for America, and backend software engineer Ethan Marcotte , designer and author, You Deserve a Tech Union (code HALLWAY15 for 15% off at …
- Five Things From Hallway Track 001: The Cosy Internet … Pacific | 5:30pm Eastern | 10:30pm London Jacky Alciné , Union Organizer, formerly Code for America, and backend software engineer Ethan Marcotte , author, You Deserve a Tech Union , and …
- I'm Dan Hon, I've had my coffee, and this is Better Strategy Now … and a hardcover of Leviathan Falls, leaned against the cap of my Code for America water bottle, pointed at me, testing different intros, one of which starts like …
- Point, Click, Adventure … I'll be joining Afua Bruce (my former Code for America Summit co-chair and former Executive Director of the White House National Science and Technology Council), Mikey …
- Absurdity, net-native journalism, Promising No Solutions, Talking and Snow Crashing, chapter 16 … Tomorrow I’m going to be “at” the Code for America Summit . Maybe I’ll see some of you there. How are you doing, anyway? Best, Dan “Caretaking …
- No, But Really, Where Do You Start? … BLUF is a term I learned while at Code for America, and I think came from someone at Code for America having spent time in the U.S …
- Take your time reading this one … I’ve done this for non-profits, as Editorial Director and Summit co-chair at Code for America, running content strategy, writing RFP reviews and putting together programming …
- *gestures at the world* … Dan Hon @ Code for America Summit 🧑🏻💻 Online! @hondanhon Yeah ok I just collapsed into tears in the kitchen with my kids and it’s only day 2 …
- Back on the wagon … March 5th 2020 46 Retweets 184 Likes Anyway, in personal news, the Code for America Summit I’ve been co-chairing has been cancelled , like many others, out …
- There’s only one rule that I know of, babies … Then I’d take some time out and go work at Code for America, because like many in my cohort in England, I feel like I never got …
- The ATCR Boundary … on March 11-13, co-chairing the Code for America Summit and that if you ping me, I probably have a discount code. You should come, if you …
- For the people, by the people … driven development for policymaking , which I see in the same space as Code for America’s paper on delivery-driven policy . There’s an 8K immersive holographic display …
- Do you have WiFi? / Liars are bad … But the related issue here, that I also got to discuss with my committee members for the Code for America summit yesterday, is where regulation of technology clashes …
- The extra bit … There’s a good Code for America blog post about how what people think are techno..cratic? solutions to things (“ how can we help renters afford water ?”) are …
- Stop Using Nouns … And it made me think about face blindness (more later, I think?) The website and call for proposals for the Code for America Summit has gone live! I …
- Do Better … we have found one of the keynote speakers for the Code for America Summit I’m co-chairing in Washington, D.C. next year (which you should come …
- The Inevitable And Possibly Ill-Advised Reboot … 1.1 The one about Helen Greiner So, I am back co-chairing the Code for America Summit for the third time (it will be in Washington, D …
- The One With The Uneven Mid-Season Two-Parter … I think some of these thoughts are prompted by the work I’m doing in prepping for programming next year’s Code for America Summit. There’s an …
- Firebreak Protocol … I will be co-chairing the Code for America Summit again and if you’ve got opinions about government and technology then my inbox is open. (My inbox …
- The Reboot's Cold Open … Ohio started dealing with its rape kit backlog which, with my former Code for America Summit Co-Chair Hat on (the font size for the hat has to …
- Peek Mode … 1.1 Do what you were supposed to do So, Jazmyn Latimer is one of the lead designers at ex-workplace and still-friends Code for America. Jazmyn …
- So, What'd I Miss? … There are Code for America brigades[6]. There's TechForward[7] There's even a bizarre alt-USDS which, to be honest, looks more like a honeypot but …
- Interesting Times … As a way of testing that relationship, California’s Department for Social Services asked Code for America to do a review of a request for proposal of their …
- Netflix Should 0.0 Station Ident 1:55pm on Wednesday, November 2 2016, sitting in the California Child Welfare Digital Services (CWDS) panel at the Code for America summit. I …
- DNS Fan Fiction; 100-watt-hour-Trucks 0.0 Station Ident 2:44pm on Tuesday, 1 November 2016 in Oakland, California at the Code for America Summit listening to the dulcet tones of Tom Loosemore …
- SMALL MOVES, ELLIE … taking part in a panel about the work I've done with Code for America and the State of California in child welfare digital services. So you know …
- Deep Dream for Depression; Unconscious Bias Prophylactic … free encyclopedia 2.0 Unconscious Bias Prophylactic Ex-colleague Fureigh[1] (former Code for America fellow, now helping to literally fix government at the sterling 18F) tweeted about …
- GUT; Sixteen Theses … left the advertising company because we had differing thoughts on what "internetify" meant and how it should be achieved joined Code for America because I was super jealous …
- Previously … I did a writeup for the Code for America blog that's in two parts[1, 2] and answered some questions on Metafilter[3]. Getting this done was …
- The Random Walk Strategy; The Wrong Way Round; Miscellanea … Club 2.0 The Wrong Way Round Via Jack Madans the other day in the Code for America Slack, news that the California SAWS Consortium IV[0] - a …
- Recreational Capitalism (3); Miscellanea … San Francisco - we're running a content strategy and training session at Code for America with Kristina Halvorsen who I think legitimately gets to claim a content strategy …
- Shockwave; The Top Priorities; Engagement; A Hostile Environment … THIS WORD DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING WHEN YOU USE IT LIKE THAT. *sigh* [0] The CFA Summit — Code for America - hey look it's the Code for America …
- Battlesuits; Simulations and Puppyslugs; Scratchpad … Say you're excited about me finally being able to publish and talk about my Code for America work that's attempting to help governments make better technology …
- What Twitter Should Do; CXO vs CUO; Shilling 0.0 Sitrep 12:20pm on Tuesday 4th August 2015, lunchtime at the Code for America office in San Francisco. I was walking back from lunch and thought …
- What You'll Reap; Foo Thoughts; The Next Generation … here[1]. [0] Onwards! | Government Digital Service [1] Thank you, Mike Bracken - Code for America -- OK. 10:04pm. More tomorrow. As ever, send notes! And if you liked …
- Sending Signals; So We Solved Publishing; 2015 (1) … One of the things we're working on at Code for America isn't to make publishing *easier* - it already is easy enough, in some ways, although certainly …
- Stock; Two Thoughts … Things That Have Caught My Attention - you would not believe how much I'm feeling guilty about not having figured out the Clarity Problem for Code for America …
- Just No; Don't Do That, Either; Seeing Like The Internet … At Code for America we take diversity seriously - I like to think that we're one of the counter-examples of Ivy-League Educated White Male Dude Tech …
- Translation; Drift; The Thing About Things … The thing is, of course, that what GDS is trying to do isn't what Code for America is trying to do and isn't what your organisation …
- Ops, Not Apps; The Internet (Of Things); Reviewing Reviewing A Year In Review … To be fair, it was an invitation, not a self-directed turning-up-on-the-doorstep that led to a Code for America "expedition" to go visit the …
- Snow Crashing (10); How The Web Works Now 0.0 Sitrep 4:18pm, Central Standard Time on 29 November on the way to London Heathrow, from Kansas City via Mineapolis St-Paul, leading a Code for …
- Videogame Tourism; Principles for 21st Century Government … in the sky on the way to the family farmhouse in Missouri] Code for America has an interesting position: they're a 501(c)(3) - a non-profit …
- Web Directions South; A Thousand Songs In Your Pocket; Odds … I continue to feel happy about the way I've been describing my team's work at Code for America: make building digital government *easy to understand* and …
- Depth, Not Breadth … Customer Service agent, when he hears that that's what Code for America is doing, says that he's right there with me. I don't know if …
- Week One; Universal Basic; Karen … 1.0 Week One I started the new job "for real" this week - Content Director at Code for America, putting my typing-for-coins where my fingers and …
- Empathy, Continued … I would joke that the good thing about joining Code for America is that there are lots of problems to fix, and the question is more about choosing …
- Thinking In Public; Writing In Public 0.0 Sitrep 10:03am just after the beginning of Frances Berriman's talk about the Government Digital Service Design Principles at the Code for America Summit, thinking …
- Continued Careening 0.0 Sitrep Sat next to Frances Berriman at the Code for America Summit ("Wow, I'm seeing the magic happen!") on opening day, and already feeling pretty …
- How Are You?; Built It And They Will...; In The Gaps … Tom Loosemore was looking for things to talk about at the Code for America summit this week[1], and one of the inspired and quippy replies was the …
- Unicorns; Six Minus … I'll be lurking in the background at next week's Code for America Summit[1] next week in San Francisco because apparently if you write for long …
- Not All...; Now Wear This; Uber … There's Code for America, there's the organisation who *donate* to Code for America, for every Zynga there's the designers and coders working at outfits like …
- An Alternative; Washing; Users … I know there are a number of Code for America and GDS readers subscribed to this newsletter. Is this right? Migursky and Loosemore, I'm looking, pointedly, at …