As of October, Code for DC is no more.
On the civic tech organization’s 11th anniversary, it officially rebranded to Civic Tech DC. The org, which meets monthly, was previously an affiliate of Code for America (CfA) before the national nonprofit severed financial ties with its local coding brigades in February of this year. Now, following a hiatus in 2022, Civic Tech DC organizers are trying to get things back up and running to pre-pandemic levels.
Code for America hosted brigades all over the country, with the goal of producing civic projects to help local communities. Sheldon Bachstein, a codirector of Civic Tech DC and engineering lead at Nava PBC, said that the group came together to vote on a new name after CfA demanded local brigades drop the ‘Code for’ moniker (CfA still hosts the web domain and the Meetup group page).
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