Code for Tucson

Community of Web Coders, SysOps and Civic Hackers

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Code for Tucson is the Tucson chapter of the Code for America Brigade. We are a group of volunteer civic hackers working together to solve local issues and help people engage with the city.

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Whether you're a communicator, web coder or sysadmin - we need you. Jump right in!

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First and third Tuesdays. Casual meetups for geeks, activists, policy makers, and journalists.

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An open conversation online about Tucson, what we're doing now, and what's next.

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Code for Tucson creates web tools, information, and experiences that serve the Old Pueblo. See a sample of our projects below, or browse the complete list here. You are welcome to dive right in!

Community NGINX security project

Lead: Allen Paul

Code of Tucson is a civic tech community driving open-source collaboration across Tucson's public infrastructure. Our current project: hardening NGINX configuration on city-facing servers — implementing TLS 1.3, security headers, rate limiting, and custom module development — to protect resident data and keep municipal digital services safe, transparent, and resilient.

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Community Share

Lead: Kristin Wisneski-Blum, Ben Reynwar & Josh Schachter

Community Share is a project to connect educators and professionals with the goal of "Inspiring our next generation of learners & leaders." Volunteer your time with a local classroom or find professionals in fields related to your lessons that can help engage your students.

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WizardMaker

Lead: Paul Tynan · Contact: [email protected]

The purpose of this system is to make it much easier to create high quality, computer-assisted, step-by-step instructions (commonly called wizards). Sustainability groups and other non-profits would benefit from such a tool.

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National Day of Civic Hacking 2016

National Day of Civic Hacking 2016

Lead: Inara Makhmudova

Code for Tucson gathered on the University of Arizona campus on June 4, 2016 to take part in the National Day of Civic Hacking 2016, a special event coordinated through Code for America. We brainstormed and collaborated on projects relating to food scarcity, language and job training resources, and the preservation of Tucson's birthplace.

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