We are the official Code for America brigade in Rhode Island, an all-volunteer organization of people looking to improve our community through technology.
Learn MoreJoin us at one of our bi-monthly meetups to learn more about our what we do, contribute to a current project, or just snag some free pizza.
2015 is off to a great start for Code Island, with two great meetups in January and lots of new faces. If you click over to our Join page, you can see all the members that have been contributing to our work. Announcements Starting in February, we’re switching our meetups...
Read moreNot too much report, per se, but the budget visualization sankey chart is looking great. Now we just need to make the RI data work with this tool. And Thom Guertin confirmed that a Google Trekker will be available to Code Island sometime in 2015. When we have a firm...
Read moreWe got a bit of a late start, but we covered a lot of ground quickly. We’ve got some events coming up, starting in early 2015, that we need to get planning on. First one is the one-year anniversary event in February 2015, and then the National Day of Civic...
Read moreProject: Candidates Questionnaire STATUS: Complete! Code Island has completed its first project! We created a questionnaire asking the Providence mayoral candidates to go "on the record" with their positions on open data...and they responded. We published the responses, and hopefully, they had an impact on the race. The What and...
Read moreCode Island held its second post-summer meetup on September 2nd. As usual, we met at Tri Lab, starting at 6pm. Sadly, your Storyteller arrived late, and the meet-up was already in full swing. I missed the review by co-captain Ryan Kelly of various projects from other brigades around the country...
Read moreAfter an unexpectedly long summer haitus, Code Island resumed our regular meetups at 6pm on Tuesday, August 19th at Tri Lab in Davol Square. In fact, we’ve booked that time at that location on first and third Tuesday of each month through the end of the year. This will be...
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