Philadelphia’s relationship with Code for America runs deep.

The national civic technology nonprofit put one of its first cohorts of city government fellows within the Nutter administration. Those fellows hosted one of the city’s first modern civic hackathons. Today, the all-volunteer Code for Philly brigade is among the most active in the country and a hotbed of next-wave civic engagement.

So consider this a fitting move: Code for America and the nonprofit’s National Advisory Council are hosting their inaugural Brigade Congress in Center City Philadelphia Oct. 13–15 — and Technical.ly is taking part.

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