by Jim March | Jan 2, 2020 | Civic Tech, community nights, criminal justice, events, featured project, National Day of Civic Hacking, open data, police data, policy, reentry
Here are some of the projects in the plans for 2020: Open Buncombe – Continue to work with Buncombe County towards adoption of an open data policyGrowing Our Information Commons – Continue to support Buncombe County Libraries with tech-savvy...
by Jim March | Jul 18, 2019 | Civic Tech, community nights, open data, policy
At the July Community Night, we continued our work to advocate for an open data policy for Buncombe County. We’ve created a draft policy, a logo, and a web page for the campaign, and we’re ready to start spreading the word about this important effort! ...
by Jim March | Jan 17, 2019 | Civic Tech, community nights, criminal justice, events, hackathon, leadership, National Day of Civic Hacking, Newsletter, open data, People, police data, policy, reentry, State of Black Asheville
Highlights by Month JANUARY: We supported the Transportation for Seniors Hackathon.FEBRUARY: We learned about ourselves by working on our website. It was a fun and engaging meeting, our best for the year, during which everyone participated. Through our discussion, we...
by Alyx Perry | Nov 19, 2018 | community nights, leadership, Newsletter
At the August 9th Code for Asheville Community Meeting, I introduced the idea of “community ambassadors,” Code for Asheville members who are committed to attending meetings of other community groups and staying in contact with them. For example, I am a community...
by Eric Jackson | Apr 18, 2017 | community nights, Newsletter
The goal for the evening was to learn about Asheville’s efforts to end homelessness in our community and to identify ways that we might help. We were joined by Tracey Childers, Co-Chair of the Asheville Homeless Coalition and Christiana Glenn Tugman, Homeless...
