Code for America (Interview)

Adam and Wynn caught up with Erik and Max, Fellows at Code for America to talk about civic-focused development and open source. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X Show Notes: Apply now to be a 2012 Code for America Fellow - Deadline is July 31 LSRC V is just around the corner Follow @TheSassWay for your Sass news Code for America enlists the talent of the web industry into public service to use their skills to solve core problems facing our communities. Erik Michaels-Ober is a Rubyist and Fellow at Code for America Max Ogden is also a Rubyist and Fellow at Code for America Erik is using (and improving) the LinkedIn Ruby gem Max loves Underscore.js from Jeremy Ashkenas Max’s GitHub page tells recruiters to get lost. Carl Malamud of Public.Resource.Org aims to make government information more accessible. The Sunlight Foundation, featured on Episode 0.1.3 Code For America’s GitHub page features 120 projects. Rails Admin is Erik’s Rails 3 engine that provides an easy-to-use interface for managing your data Erik and Wynn met through John Nunemaker’s Twitter Gem Faraday is Rick Olson’s slick Rack-like HTTP client library. Mislav Marohni? helps maintain Faraday Want to create your own programming language like Jeremy Ashekenas? Read this book! Max is a fan of Request from Mikeal Rogers Erik is a fan of Sam Stephenson, featured in Episode 0.6.4 Brian Ford, Evan Phoenix, make Rubinius rock. Steve Richert aka @LaserLemon helps out with the Twitter gem. Best username evar. TextMate users: be nice to your Vim friends. The opportunity for Civic Startups Fight for the User Literary Machines is a thirty year old book from Ted Nelson. Open211.org - The Redirectory Project is a free and open directory of social services and resources that anyone can contribute to. Test your Ruby projects against multiple Rubies with Travis Gemcutter powers RubyGems.org Substance.io is an HTML5-based document editor from Michael Aufreiter Be sure and follow Substack on GitHub. Apply now to be a 2012 Code for America Fellow - Deadline is July 31 Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!