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Code for Asheville at Summit 2018
Code for Asheville had quite a Summit! The Asheville contingent was large this year with brigade leaders Sabrah n'haRaven, Jim March and Eric Jackson and City staffers Kimberlee Archie (Equity), Wanda Burgess (IT), Jonathan Feldman (IT) and Frank McGowan (Finance)....
Police Data Petition Update: May 15 City Council Meeting
Jaime Matthews, Assistant to the City Manager, and Scott Barnwell, Business and Public Technology Manager in the IT department, presented the staff report promised after Patrick Conant presented the Petition for Police Accountability Through Data Transparency at the...
Police Data Petition Presented to City Council
On behalf of Code for Asheville Patrick Conant presented the Petition for Police Accountability Through Data Transparency to the Asheville City Council on April 24. Since it was on the agenda as a presentation, no vote was taken, but the Council made clear that it is...
Police Data Request Next Steps
The results of the Code for Asheville Petition for Police Accountability Through Data Transparency effort continue to be exciting. Patrick Conant successfully presented to the Public Safety Committee and the effort has garnered endorsements from national...
Police Data Petition Presented to Public Safety Committee
Patrick Conant presented Code for Asheville’s Petition for Police Accountability Through Data Transparency to the Asheville Public Safety Committee on Monday, March 26th, formally requesting that the proposal be considered by City Council. Patrick described the...
Code for Asheville Sponsors Police Data Petition & Request to City Council
Events overtook the planned agenda for our March 8 Community Night and we turned our attention to the horrendous video that was leaked to the Citizen-Times showing the beating of a black resident by a white police officer following a stop allegedly for jaywalking and...
Learning About Ourselves by Working on the Website
If you are a Code for Asheville member, you probably don’t spend much time hanging out on our website. The site is primarily used by people who don’t know us, from the generally curious to potential members or partners. At our February 8th Community Night we spent...
What’s the Code in Code for Asheville?
I initially wrote this essay on my personal blog and it was then republished on the Code for America blog. Musing on the word "code" gave me an opportunity to express how I see the potential of Code for America brigades. I'd like to share it with you, especially since...
Making Transportation Access Easier
I want to share the following report from Code for Asheville member Tracy Schmidt on the Transportation for Seniors Hackathon on January 13. Special thanks to the other Code for Asheville members who showed up so strong: Eric Jackson, Jesse Michel, Sabrah n'haRaven,...
The Year Ahead at Code for Asheville
We had a pretty amazing year in 2017 - we showed up and we mattered, and that is something to celebrate. We will do no less in 2018. Our hope, though, is to do much more by making it much easier for you both to contribute to the work and to participate in the...