Who We Are

We’re Kansas City’s chapter of the Code for America Brigade network, a group of civic-minded geeks who volunteer our talents to projects that improve how our local governments and community organizations use the web. We strive for principles of open data and technology advocacy for civic good and are supported by our host organization, KC Digital Drive. The Brigade is about action, so join us at a Hack Night where we’ll commit code to make a difference in our city!

Delivered Projects

CommunityKC Mapping Tool

Help Us Deliver Projects to Benefit the KC Area

CommunityKC.org Creating a community development mapping tool

311 App Integrating with the city’s open data portal to provide 311 notifications and daily alerts

Teardown Tattler Preventing the destruction of historic buildings

Awesome Transit App A wayfinder for public transit

FluShot Finder Helping people avoid the flu bug

Bizfriend.ly (live) Built by the CfA fellows to help small businesses

wikiKC.org (live) Filling out an informational resource for all Kansas Citians

View more on our Projects page

Suggest your project or civic app idea

News

Code for KC had quite a cool dual event yesterday, Feb 24, 2015, for CodeAcross. First was the Civic Tech Forum, featuring 28 city council candidates sharing their views on technology's impact on the community. Then, we had a Civic Apps Showcase: 10 5-minute presentations from people who have built apps; a couple as part of the Brigade, but most from other sources: a big engineering firm, a couple of startups, two university projects, and a couple of passionate side projects. Good stuff, thought I'd share the videos:

1. KCMO Civic Tech Forum: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/59193588
2. Civic Apps Showcase: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/59198150

Or if you just wanna read about it: http://www.kcdigitaldrive.org/civictechkc/

Hack With Us

We meet every week on Monday night to hack, socialize and learn. Join us on Meetup for the latest info. Upcoming meetings:

• Mar. 30 - NO MEETING
• Apr. 6 - Hack Night - RSVP
• Apr. 13 - Hack Night - RSVP
• Apr. 20 - Learn Night - RSVP Learn about data.kcmo.org
• Apr. 27 - Hack Night - RSVP
• May. 43 - Yack Night - RSVP

Follow our activities on our Hack Pad

Thanks to our Sponsors

Interested in becoming a sponsor? Contact Aaron at KC Digital Drive: adeacon@kcdigitaldrive.org

Stay in Touch

Got a question? Contact Brigade captain Paul Barham at paul@codeforamerica.org. Sign up for our mailing list to receive updates.