Weekly Civic Hack Night – Plus Speaker Jennifer Pahlka

We’re thrilled to announce a very special speaker at Code for San Francisco next week:

Jennifer Pahlka, the founder of Code for America! Jen will talk about improving existing systems compared to starting new projects, drawing on her experiences leading CfA and working with the White House.

RSVP on Meetup - this one will fill up, so make sure you’re on the list!

Jen’s bio is below, but first we have a couple other announcements:

Get your DiscoTech on next week! A DiscoTech is a Discovering Technology event, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts wants to collaborate with Code for San Francisco to have one on October 4th as part of their Open City/Art City Open Art and Ideas Festival. Join the conversation after Jen’s talk, and be a part of making this collaborative event happen!

We will not have a hack night on September 24th due to the Code for America Summit. We’ll have more information soon about streaming for Summit talks and other events that may be open to Brigade members.

Jennifer Pahlka

is the founder and executive director of Code for America. She recently served as the US Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. She is known for her

TED talk

, Coding a Better Government, and the recipient of several awards, including MIT’s Kevin Lynch Award, the Oxford Internet Institute’s Internet and Society Award, and the National Democratic Institute’s Democracy Award. She spent eight years at CMP Media, where she ran the Game Developers Conference, Game Developer magazine, Gamasutra.com, and the Independent Games Festival. Previously, she ran the Web 2.0 and Gov 2.0 events for TechWeb, in conjunction with O’Reilly Media. She is a graduate of Yale University and lives in Oakland, Calif. with her daughter, her fiance, and seven chickens.

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