Why You Should Join

Do Good

Use technology to create real solutions for problems facing our community in RI and, potentially, people across the country and around the world.

Network

Meet and collaborate with some of the brightest local minds — folks with an incredibly diverse range of backgrounds, experiences, and skills.

Learn

Get hands-on experience working in new languages and frameworks, make peer-reviewed code contributions, or just brainstorm ideas with us.

Eat Pizza

Pizza is good. You should probably eat more of it.

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Contributing Members

Everyone, no matter their skills or interests, is invited to participate and contribute. If you would like to be listed here, contact Ryan Kelley to become a member of the Code Island organization on Github, and then change your membership from private to public.

Leadership

Ryan Kelly, Co-captain Ryan is the Urban Information Specialist at the Providence Plan, transforming a wide range of public and private data sets into usable information displays that help residents and outsiders understand that complexity that is Providence, RI

David Johnson, Co-captain David is a “white hat” consultant in the critical but secretive world of information security, working with governments and corporations to keep the forces of evil from exploiting the openness that defines a civil society

Shawn Selleck, Community Organizer Shawn is an civic innovation consultant to the City of Providence, directly working to make public data accessible to the public

John Speck, Storyteller John is a communications consultant and civic activist, who blogs under the pseudonym Frymaster

Thom Guertin, Government Liaison Thom is Rhode Island’s Chief Digital Officer, leading RI’s Office of Digital Excellence; he helps Code Island gain access to data from state-level agencies