41 Open Source Code For America Software Projects

COVID-19 Hospital Impact Model for Epidemics

SF Brigade's Data Science Working Group.

Visualizations of Oakland's budget data, and explanations about the budget process.

A web application that allows citizens to "adopt" a storm drain in San Francisco. In use, and in development at other brigades. Looking for a maintainer or someone interested in developing further in collaboration with others across the country.

Voice assistant connection to Boston services

Public Tree Map documents all ~35,000 public street and park trees in Santa Monica's urban forest. The map includes contextual information collected from open datasets and digitized city records. To reflect tree plantings and removals, the map updates every day. We're also working to add tree data from other cities in LA county. Work in progress:

Spare connects people in need of clothing and other essentials with people in the community who have things to spare. It is like a one-on-one Goodwill. We are hoping the donation can be a mechanism for building these connections throughout our community.

Heart is a project working directly with the LA City Attorney’s Homeless Engagement and Response Team. We are building a database and case management system to streamline their workflow and enable them to scale their program. Find us on the Hack for LA Slack #heart.

LA Family Housing, an LA-based non-profit working to end the homelessness crisis, engaged the help of Hack for LA to identify and design a more efficient & effective solution for matching multiple individuals who experience homelessness as potential co-tenants, and placing the matched individuals in suitable shared housing units.

Code supporting citizen analysis of crime in Oakland, CA

Empowering Neighborhood Associations to improve the analysis of their initiatives using 311 data

Code for Hawaii + ACLU app to show public access rights

Open-source web application for radio stations to manage show schedules, traffic and compliance

Aggregate job opportunities for homeless service providers so that people can search for a job in the non-profit sector that fits their skillset.

HelloGOV is a call-to-rep campaign link generating tool for organizations engaging in state and federal level legislative advocacy.

We scan thousands of government websites to check how well they stack up on security, accessibility, and public accountability.

Windfall Elimination Provision Awareness Project: improving the experience of retirees around an obscure Social Security rule affecting 8+ states

We're working to help neighborhoods help themselves by giving them easy access to useful data to allow them to identify and track problem areas in their neighborhood.

Repository for the current redevelopment of the Food Oasis Los Angeles website

Online portal for Code for Denver members

NC Campaign Finance Dashboard. Making NC Campaign Funds visible to all citizens

We're working with community non-profits who have a Host Home or empty bedrooms initiative to develop a workflow management tool to make the process scalable (across all providers), reduce institutional bias, and effectively capture data.

Community support site, supporting COVID-19 business opening hours, Food Banks, School Meals, Farms and Social Services.

Not debates, but recorded online video Q&A with candidates so voters can quickly can get to know them, for every candidate, for every election, across the US.

New ODCA front end

"Our corpus is tweets."

DTLA Hack for LA is partnering with Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) to develop a Traffic Demand Management (TDM) calculator tool. This tool will help planners at LADOT and real estate developers to meet the Los Angeles’s Mobility Plan goals by 2035.

Code for San José website

Automated performance report for the LA Metro rail system.

This is an experimental reimplementation of courtbot using python.

Adopt-A-CivicArt project collaboration with the County Arts Commission

An application to assist social workers in monitoring k-12 student performance.

Queuing app for 3D printing

An open-source project to modernize online school resources led by students

Advocating better air quality for impacted communities

Refugees welcome

Volunteer Relationship Management System: This is an ambitious project to create a system that will help us measure our human capital development, reduce repetitive tasks and processes, and improve outcomes.

Mapping Energy Efficiency & Public Health