Code for America Email

[Chase Southard]

Good Evening, 

I just sent the following email regarding Code for America opportunity to the Mayor-elect Gray and the Urban County Council.

Later, 

Chase

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Dear Mayor-elect Gray and Urban County Council Members,

Have you heard of Code for America? It's a non-profit organization that helps cities build cost-saving, innovative apps, and I think our city could benefit from it. You can find more information here (http://codeforamerica.org/cities), and you can get in touch with Code for America by emailing ali...@codeforamerica.org.

I think this is a really great opportunity for us!

Again, I offer my time to your office, committee and council for discussions on Open Data and Open Local Government.

Thanks for the time,

Chase Southard

OpenLexington

http://openlexington.org

chase.s...@gmail.com

[Ben Self]

I've spoken with Jenn before, the head of code for america- we have lots of mutual friends from the Sunlight foundation. 

It will be interesting to watch this year as they unfold to see what things happen.  I agree that it would be good to get Lexington to do this, as well, but there is a cost to it, which would have to be justified (and hard to justify without pointing at previous results).

-Ben

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Ben Self
b...@benself.com
Cell: (859) 536-3239

[David Rhodus]

I looked over the application, One of the items from CfA's checklist
is "___ Identified and/or secured $250,000 participation fee."

https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1aKU96VfBS5g2xWGLWFso0cl8fZa2OzV5ZLlbVpX73qQ&hl=en&authkey=CLC_0aAE&pli=1#

-DR