Welcome to Civic Tech Projects. Civic Tech Projects is an open source collection of active projects for the Make-a-Diff community. In order to help you make the most impact, we only feature projects that are being actively built.
- Help people (both technical and non-technical) find civic tech projects and contribute to them.
- Provide an easy way for people to search projects by skills needed.
- Provide a platform for tech and civic leaders to share their projects and find collaborators.
Project proposals can be submitted through our submission form.
If you have an existing project with a repo, include a civic.json file in the top level of your repo.
We use civic.json, which is the metadata standard created by BetaNYC and adapted by CFA. This ensures your project is easily found through Code for America's API, the CfAPI.
civic.json looks like this:
{
"status": "Beta",
"thumbnailUrl": "http://www.skyspaceinternational.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/images/NYC_Skyline_Thumb.97220225.jpg",
"bornAt": "BetaNYC Hacknights",
"geography": "NYC",
"politicalEntity":"",
"type":"Web App",
"needs": [
{"need": "Web Designer"},
{"need": "Node Dev"},
{"need": "Angularjs Dev"}
],
"categories": [
{"category": "Community"},
{"category": "Education"}
]
}- Fork this repository
- Clone the repository to your computer with
git clone git@github.com:make-a-diff/civic-tech-projects.git - In your terminal:
npm install - Open with editor
- Check out our Issues
Welcome! This is a great place to start.
- Read detailed guidelines on how to contribute here.
This project was inspired by two open source projects worth mentioning here:
Looking for more Open Source projects? Here's a list of other civic tech projects.
Code for America has a great list of civic software tools, libraries and resources.