Brigade Information

This repository hosts data about Code for America brigades and other civic tech organizations for the Code for America API.

How to add or edit your Brigade for the API

The organization list is a JSON file named organizations.json. Add or edit your organization's information in that file and submit your changes as a pull request.

A single organization's record looks like this:

{
    "name": "Beta NYC",
    "website": "http://www.beta.nyc",
    "events_url": "http://www.meetup.com/BetaNYC/",
    "rss": "http://betanyc.tumblr.com/",
    "projects_list_url": "http://projects.betanyc.us/projects",
    "city": "New York, NY",
    "latitude": "40.7144",
    "longitude": "-74.0060",
    "type": "Brigade, Official"
}

• events_url is the URL of your event-scheduling page. Only meetup.com URLs are supported.
• rss is the URL of a blog or its RSS feed. The API will look in the usual places for a feed URL if the link isn't direct. Non-blog RSS feeds will also be processed.
• projects_list_url is the URL of a GitHub organization or of a list of project URLs, formatted as described in the Code for America API's README.
• latitude and longitude values can be figured out using a tool like LatLong.net.
• type is the type of organization you're adding – the most commonly used types are Brigade, Code for All, and Government.

If you have any questions, start an issue on this repo.