Join us next weekend for the alpha event of the Code for America Brigade for the first Code Across America day!

We're going to start lifting up what Oakland is really about- great art and culture! Too much bad press gets a brother down, so let's put our heads together and build something dope for our town that will elevate our profile beyond crime and out-of control protests. Art. Art and tech. We are the creative town, so let's make it known.

The previous year's fellows at Code for America built a great little app called the Public Art Mapper- it lets you snap pics and upload locations of any public art in your town, then visitors, friends, tourists can find the great art in our town via a smartphone app, on twitter and even check in to the locations and discuss each spot using Foursquare. The app has already been rolled out in SF, Portland and Philadelphia.

First step to make this happen is for some code lovin Oaklanders to join us in SF (yes, yes, sorry) and work with the app developers to stand up a local instance for our city, then we can go wild collecting data on all the great public art here! Then we start to pass the word around and get people more aware and excited about the public art around town.

Please register if you wan take part, next Saturday 25th, starting at 11am sharp, not too early! No excuses.

Hashtag: #cfa2012
IRC: #codeforamerica
Forum: brigade-dev