Quality childcare is a major concern. Too many want to pretend like they care about our families development and focus on catching up on what was lost. Truth is the many that are lost today was always lost and that is why we are suffering. Our families need supports and onsite quality family care at their work place. Is there research on companies with high turnover before the pandemic and if those companies continue to have high turnover to date. would love to examine company culture and what diversity means to them. So many on so many levels are transforming away from slave labor, like $1o/hr, $13/hr to $15/hr is getting left in the dust with covid inflation. Transformation is in the air thanks to smartphones and social media!! Hope i can add some of this research soon.

there’s a community mapping training late june by common cause pa please consider the training to help us connect more of our communities to gerrymandering

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScyHLz4u_cpn3oxDDrVnlRtWaJZOME9cwrzXBZVEOheJvYqSg/viewform

Philly STEM Education for Sustainability: Year-Long Paid Fellowship for Phila. H. S. Teachers – Jun 9 Posted by Philly STEM Education for Sustainability on May 25, 2021 Are you interested in making STEM learning directly relevant to your students’ lived realities? Excited by the possibilities of creating place-based, community-engaged projects? Want to collaborate with students, teachers, staff, and community organizations to address issues of sustainability, social, environmental, and climate justice?

We are inviting applications from Philadelphia high school teachers to participate in a year-long paid fellowship aimed at expanding student engagement in Green STEM Education for Sustainability and building awareness of Green STEM career paths.

To Apply:

Review the Project One-Pager https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mJlRSyKts_0iK8V_1rzYk3HszHeknOzP/edit Connect with others at your school who are passionate about using STEM to address social problems

Complete the Application Form by the June 9th deadline https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeEldpWz4M4q5zu6wjv6bNXeg4geOjeS4i4EGaXJ3t3smN0pQ/viewform Send your resume/CV to EFSPhilly@gmail.com

https://www.efscollective.org/benchmarks

Come join the bootstrapping fun in our meeting July 7th at 6:30p! We will be going over project requirements, help needed & the Philadelphia Bail Funds mission. Also be sure to join our slack channel at #philadelphia_bail_fund

Meeting URL: https://meet.google.com/xpj-zdjz-kso Phone: ‪+1 402-588-0110‬ PIN: ‪248 697 317#‬ More numbers: https://t.meet/xpj-zdjz-kso

Thousands of people are finding food, especially Senior Citizens and families, on http://PhillyFoodFinder.org.

Alongside this effort, Key Medium also supports various nonprofits & the Government—which got us featured alongside Verizon and others for our Coding for Causes x CfP projects.

See our analytics (feel free to select March 23, when we redesigned, in the top right—and yes this is the lowest bounce rate we’ve ever seen, too): https://datastudio.google.com/open/1qd-_Yr4GXqRbjijJHiDhuwRyteK6Zk1r

Featured as one of the resources for students who are food insecure

The open-source project can be adapted to fit hospital populations anywhere.

Tim gave a great overview of the project scope at Launchpad on Friday evening! Looking for front end developers and UX designers interested in a shorter-term but high impact project!

The Prevention Point project has been chosen as one of the talks for the 2019 Data Jawn! Title of talk….potentially up for debate.

Developers have been powering through to create a back end API and a front end user interface.

The project is looking for front end developers and friends who are familiar with Django. If that’s you, find us in the #preventionpoint channel on slack (linked in the project description)!

Cypher Philly, together with Untitled Folder LLC, Neo4j, Technically Media, Linode and Code For Philly: To create an open-source web application project designed to empower citizens, journalists, data scientists, coders and creatives with the ability to harness open data for journalism, public information, and civic good.

CyclePhilly subject of journal article in Journal of Safety Research

Twenty-two percent of Philadelphians are food insecure — unsure of where their next meal is coming from.

The Philadelphia Food Policy Advisory Council’s Anti-Hunger Subcommittee saw the need for a food resources toolkit that consolidated information about how to get affordable, healthy food in Philadelphia. So it gathered and compiled reliable information about different types of food resources for a project now known as Philly Food Finder.

MentorPhilly and other awesome projects mentioned as part of an article about the Reentry Project hackathon organized by Code for Philly.

Philly Food Finder is a resource listed for children and families

PHLASK was featured on PhillyCAM’s People Power Lunch Hour alongside other local environmental activists. We discussed different environmental issues facing Philadelphia, and some potential solutions.

PHLASK is discussed at 28:25 mark

Article posted by Kamal Elliott at the Office of Open Data and Digital Transformation

A map of RCOs shared by the City already exists, but the new app can facilitate new levels of engagement. “[The government resource] serves a lot of different purposes, so you have to dig in the settings to get to the RCO layer,” said Laura Oxenfeld, MyPhilly’s lead user experience designer and project manager. “So ours is just devoted to that.”

Chris Williams presented a project update to highlight the donations-by-district maps in the next version of Leverage.

The Leverage team was in nearly full attendance on this cold and rainy Spring Saturday. Discussions with Brian McHale helped fill out the busy day. In addition the Leverage team made leadership decisions for the upcoming month.

Hackadashery won the Hello World prize for the best civic tech initiative coming out of the CaaSH hackathon. Hurray!

This project was in better shape than the rest of the cohort, as it was the team’s second hackathon attempt at putting together a comprehensive review of campaign finance data in Philly. The site has an active API which can be leveraged by other cities (and states? and countries?). Thanks to its advanced state, the team behind Leverage took home the Civic Tech award.

In honor of the first day of the Democratic National Convention taking place in Philly, the Committee of Seventy put together a display of civic tech on Monday….

And representing Philly:

Leverage: A data visualization platform for turning campaign finance data into digestible infographics and visuals.

In just a few short months (~24 months if you factor in Lauren’s first published parking dataset to github), Parkadelphia has evolved into a very useful application. Check it out!

This is a much needed tool, and will be a big help to other projects connected with this issue. https://www.instagram.com/p/BDMGY6ISF8q/?taken-by=st215

The official Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission CyclePhilly map has been featured on the CartoDB homepage recently.

I guess it should be easy. Many hotels/public places upon connection to WIFI redirects to the their authorization site. So I guess WIFI can be set to authorize users utilizing codeforphilly.org account

This is why we are doing what we do. NYT writes:

“At the same time, there’s evidence that talented kids from low-income families who could handle the work at leading colleges and get ample financial aid often don’t realize it. And there are aspects of those colleges’ admissions processes that work against them.”

Take it from James Tyack, who led a civic app project called Unlock Philly where users could report accessibility issues on SEPTA.

“When we first started recording and sharing the [elevator] outages, we saw up to 10 outages at a time with some elevators broken for two months,” he wrote. “The stats show an improvement over the past year: it’s rare to see more than one or two concurrent outages and they’re fixed quickly.”

The team behind CyclePhilly, civic hackers Kathryn Killebrew, Corey Acri and Lloyd Emelle, all traveled to Oakland to accept the award. It’s a nice bit of national recognition for Philly’s bustling civic hacking scene.

The Code for America brigade Code for Philly is tinkering with a new voting app called VoteWise. The app is in an early prototyping phase at present, but has ambitiously set its sights on the Herculean issue of campaign finance reform.

Our developer Bob just completed an internship at 50onRed and talked about his work with Code for Philly and Yadaguru during his interview.

Technical.ly Philly is generously running some free adverts on behalf of the project.

Civic Hacking is a great way to learn skills and do it an no-stress environment. This is one developer’s experience.

But that wasn’t the only nerdy thing we did that weekend. We also participated in a health hackathon sponsored by Apps4Philly and Code for Philly. That’s right, the Health Department supports hacking. Especially when that hacking is about taking health information that’s already available and making it more useful. In anticipation, we worked with the folks at OIT to publish five sets of data that we hoped folks would use.

Building on the city’s two-wheeled momentum of recent years, the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission released a CyclePhilly app (created by Code for Philly) last year to gather user-generated biking data. The DVRPC recently transformed those numbers into a cool map, showing 8,000-plus trips by app users in six months.

During the first six-month study period, 220 unique users logged 8,340 individual trips on the app, yielding a trove of trip data that provides a glimpse into the cycling behavior of the people who used it.

When the initial findings were released, DVRPC said they would eventually make (anonymized) trip-by-trip GIS data available for those looking to conduct additional analysis of specific routes, and yesterday they made good on that promise.

Three new datasets have now been added to the “download data” tab under “Tools and Data” on the DVRPC web site.

Trip detail by segment (available as a Shapefile) Discrete trip data for each segment in the network, including voluntary (but not personally-identifiable) rider characteristics for each trip. Trip by trip summary (available as a Shapefile or a GeoJson): Linework for every individual trip. Segment network nodes (available as a Shapefile or a GeoJson): Can be used with the above datasets to support spatial analysis, such as origin-destination analysis.

Our own Briana Morgan doing an excellent reflexive piece.

The most bicycled street in all of Philadelphia is Spring Garden Street, at least according to CyclePhilly, the mobile app built by civic hackers at Code for Philly. The Spring Garden Street Greenway team quoted that data as they explained why and how they wanted to beautify the dilapidated and dangerous street that cuts across the whole city. (Twenty-one percent of all crashes on Spring Garden involve bikes, they said.) Their plan is to make the street not life-threateningly scary.

Metrics from Ward Leader Baseball Cards informed a philly.com analysis on mayoral candidate endorsements:

Here’s an example: Supporters of State Sen. Anthony Hardy Williams’ campaign for mayor were more than a little peeved when a group of ward leaders and elected officials known as the Northwest Coalition endorsed Kenney for mayor. Williams and the Northwest Coalition members are African American. Kenney is white.

Here’s a key difference: a group of computer whizzes known as Code for Philly this month ranked the city’s Democratic ward leaders based on their history of turning out voters.

The Northwest Coalition ward leaders were in the top five for turnout. The LUPE ward leaders were in the bottom five.

The wonderful people at Code for Philly have created a fun new website about Philadelphia’s ward leaders. You may have thought, quite reasonably, that such a feat was impossible. Ward leaders are many things, but “fun” is not usually one of them.

Do you know who your ward leader is? Do you even know what a ward leader is?

Code for Philly wants to help. The civic hacking group built baseball cards to get you acquainted with these local political leaders. The project came out of last month’s Apps for Philly Democracy Hackathon, just in time for baseball’s opening day.

Zach Rendin does a photo reel of the hackathon highlights for DemHack 2015!

Nice write up with highlights from James Tyack.

TP article on the hackathon projects.

WHYY did a preview article for the hackathon, nice write up.

The project was referenced by PhillyMag on an article they did on gentrification in Philly.

The CyclePhilly app, a product of Code for Philly, the Bicycle Coalition, DVRPC, SEPTA, and the City of Philadelphia that logs cyclist trip data for planning purposes, has been up and running for a few months, and now we have a first look at the first six months of data they collected between May and October.

This is somewhat old news at this point, but thought it might be helpful to share here. At the Philly EcoCamp Hackathon this summer, we built a map site with some data layers that may be helpful for identifying vacant properties suitable for agriculture.

Here is the site. If you click a spot, it will go fetch nearby properties and show them on the map.

The code for it is here.

The project aims to help the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia with its annual survey, by giving the group real-time access to data and making it easier for volunteers to collect it.

Three Code for Philly related projects, CyclePhilly, Climate Tracker and MilkCrate have been nominated as Green Innovators for the 2014 Philly Greenfest.

In September 2014, FPAC’s Anti-Hunger Subcommittee partnered with the Greater Philadelphia Coalition Against Hunger and Hack4Impact to develop an interactive, online version of the food resources toolkits. Hack4Impact is a University of Pennsylvania student group doing in-kind web development for nonprofit organizations. A small team of students spent five months creating PhillyFoodFinder.org, which offers online access to a comprehensive map of food resources that is searchable by address.

Last week, the Mayor’s Office of Communications announced the release of the Philly311 After School Activities widget. Born out of Philly311’s public widget contest, the idea for a youth programming widget came from Code for Philly Brigade Captain Chris Alfano. Chris Alfano won the widget contest, which led to a partnership between Philly311, Code for Philly, and the After School Activities Partnership (ASAP).

Philadelphia, August 7, 2014— The City of Philadelphia released a new widget, the After School Activities widget, which enables users to learn more about after school activities and programs in their neighborhoods. As the winning idea for the 2013 Philly311 Widget Contest, the After School Activities widget is accessible through the Philly311 Mobile App.

Unlock Philly aims to improve traveling and living in the city for people with mobility issues

Ather Sharif, who had moved to Philadelphia last year for treatment for a spinal cord injury, knows how important it is for people with mobility issues to plan when using public transportation. Though he was impressed with the accessibility of SEPTA’s subways and buses, he saw how quickly regular maintenance issues–a broken elevator at a subway station or construction blocking a pathway–could derail travel plans….

Cyclephilly is an online map and a mobile application that let the users record their daily routes in the city of Philadelphia. Although it has been around only for a couple of months, it can be already called a success story.

It’s been two months since the launch of CyclePhilly, the mobile application that collects rider data in hopes of improving regional bike routes. Early results indicate a success.

Drivers and data-heads alike, rejoice: One designer has created a helpful map for Philadelphia motorists, making it easier to see the borders of the Parking Authority’s residential permit parking districts.

One of the main projects worked on at the hackathon was Unlock Philly, a data site centered around accessibility mapping. It has a variety of tools for people with disabilities to smartly commute around the city, including maps of accessible train stations in Philadelphia, an accessible trip planner, data visualizations of the broken accessibility elevators in stations, and videos to help people with anxiety navigate each station remotely.

The future of Philadelphia’s bike lanes is in your hands thanks to the new smartphone app CyclePhilly. Launching the app when you start your ride allows CyclePhilly to track your route–whether it’s your morning commute or just a leisurely weekend ride. The app then collates your data with that of other users, which, according to CyclePhilly founder Corey Acri, makes “Philly a better place to bike” by using biking habits to inform future bicycle infrastructure planning.

(note: this article was written the weekend before #hack4access event)

Visualize the Philadelphia School District‘s budget with a tool built by local civic hackers Chris Alfano and Lauren Ancona.

The pair built the visualization, which shows the District’s 2014 budget and proposed 2015 budget, at this month’s EdTech Hackathon with budget data the District released ahead of the event. District representatives said they hoped technologists would use the data to build tools that could increase transparency by making the budget easier to understand.

greenSTEMnetwork, a soil-monitoring kit designed to teach students about STEM, started like many other hackathon projects do. Someone had an idea, pitched it at a hackathon and found a team of developers to work on it.

But instead of fizzling out and losing steam after the hackathon ended, like most projects do, the team continued to work on greenSTEM for a year and a half, up until it was ready to ship. Matthew Fritch, the Water Department environmental engineer who originally presented the idea at the February 2013 TechCamp hackathon, which, full disclosure, Technical.ly Philly organized with the U.S. State Department and dev firm Jarvus, plans to install the kits at four public schools next week.

So what made greenSTEM different?

A new Census report came out yesterday showing that bicycling is the fastest-growing mode of transportation for commuters in Philadelphia.

Two percent of workers in Philly biked to work between 2008 and 2012, which is low in absolute terms, but more than double the 0.9 percent number from the 2000 Census. The percentage of people walking to work fell from 9.1 percent in 2000 to 8.6 percent for 2008 to 2012. One explanation might be that as the city has installed more separated cycling infrastructure, more people have taken to biking instead of walking.

A more pessimistic take on the walking numbers might be that more people are working in the suburbs than commuting from the outer neighborhoods into Center City.

One interesting finding from the national data was that the number of male cyclists was almost double the number of female cyclists. Studies show that women are more comfortable cycling on separated bike lanes than in mixed-traffic, so if America’s Number One Green City wants the bike commuting rates to keep growing, city politicians are going to have to get behind more protected bike lanes.

Luckily, a new tool from Code for Philly points the way forward.

Developed in partnership with the City of Philadelphia, DVRPC, SEPTA, and the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, the CyclePhilly smartphone app allows cyclists to record their bicycle trips and compare their routes to other cyclists on an interactive map.

The Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia posted today about a new free app for Philly cyclists called CyclePhilly. Its goal: to record trip data to help city planners get a better handle on where bike trips take place and how to better accommodate them. Meaning? With enough buy-in from Philly cyclists, the app’s data could be used to pave the way for new and better bike lanes down the line.

Calling all cyclists with smart phones! With a new app called CyclePhilly, you can record and report your biking routes, travel times, and trip purposes. The aggregate data, which will include a map showing your and other participants’ rides, will help planning agencies and their partners improve area bike infrastructure.

One of the challenges of the better bicycling game is figuring out where people ride. We conduct our annual bike counts, and organizations like DVRPC can put down counters on select streets, but these give us snapshots at best. Philadelphians take thousands of bike trips a day, and if we knew where, when, and why folks were riding, planners could use that information to design better streets and connect our trails.

Now a cadre of volunteer Code for Philly developers have created a mobile app that attempts to fill in this gap in our knowledge. The Cycle Philly App is out of beta and available for download for Apple and Android.

Developed by local civic hackers at Code for Philly, in conjunction with the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, the idea of having community cyclists crowd source their bike routes for planning authorities first originated in San Francisco, but this is the first attempt to record Philadelphia bike patterns, despite the city having the highest rate of cyclists per capita of the nation’s 10 biggest cities.

Students at four Philadelphia public schools will be using hardware to tend to their rain gardens. They’ll also learn how to build, program and maintain the hardware.

The Apps for Philly Education Hackathon will bring together developers, designers, students, teachers and more to build applications designed for use in education from May 2 to May 4 at Impact Hub and the Science Leadership Academy. The hackathon is organized by Code for Philly, Jarv.us, Slate, and Philly EdTech meetup.

GreenSTEM made the cover of this week’s CityPaper:

For more than a year, Fritch has been developing a soil-monitoring kit with a volunteer group of civic hackers. In a few weeks, the first batch of greenSTEM Network devices will be introduced to four public schools – Nebinger, Greenfield, Cook-Wissahickon and the Science Leadership Academy’s Beeber campus – and he’s doing a few last-minute tests on something he essentially built from scratch.

Open data campaigners are hoping for an announcement from the Environment Agency in the coming weeks about opening its core flood data. But waiting for governments to open their data troves is not the only way to get your hands on it. In Philadelphia, in the US state of Pennsylvania, a group of ‘civic hackers’ going under the name Code for Philly have decided to take the collection of climate data into their own hands.

GreenSTEM Network connects youth to the environment by giving students in Philadelphia-area schools the ability to monitor data from gardens, green roofs, and various types of green stormwater infrastructure.

The group’s old website hadn’t been updated much since its launch in 2011. When Sarah Johnson heard that at an OpenAccessPHL meeting, she offered to help. Johnson, a Girl Develop It teacher, has been building the website at the weekly Code for Philly meetups along with Nnena Odim and Karin Brown, whom she teamed up with at during a Girl Develop It/Code for Philly joint meetup.

The elevator at SEPTA’s 8th and Market station didn’t work for more than a month.

Civic hacker James Tyack noticed.

Tyack, a software developer at King of Prussia-based Health Market Science, pays attention to accessibility issues, as NBC10 reported. It’s why he built Unlock Philly, an app that shows the SEPTA subway and high-speed line stops that are wheelchair-accessible and have elevators.

Hoping to give people who rely escalators and elevators to get in and out of stations a better picture of the accessibility issues they’re facing, Tyack created an app called Unlock Philly.

Available through web browsers on computers and smartphones, the app automatically culls together accessibility information at SEPTA rail stations — including issues like broken elevators — onto an easy-to-read map. That data comes from SEPTA’s website.

Under the heading Private Sector Commitments:

Code for Philly: Using City Buses to Help Monitor Local Climate Change-Related Pollution. Code for Philly, Code for America’s Philadelphia Brigade, is announcing the development of a new mobile sensor network they aim to run on city buses to gather temperature and pollution data across the city, allowing researchers to track the effects of climate change on and its pollutants in areas across an entire city. This data will be combined with OpenTreeMaps, a platform for crowdsourced tree inventory and urban forestry analysis, to determine the value of trees in combating climate change. The data will also be openly available so developers can incorporate and convey information on local pollution and heat levels in real time to citizens.

Newsworks did a story with audio and put me on the radio talking about the heatmap.

Code for Philly – a community of web developers and “hacker citizenry, dedicated to re-imagining City government through civic apps” —has a new map showing which Philadelphia neighborhoods have seen an increase and decrease in new projects between 2007 and 2013.

Can new construction point to a neighborhood’s revitalization?

That’s what Jim Smiley, civic hacker and also Technical.ly’s contributing web editor, wondered as he made Gentrifying Philly, a map (with, you might say, a slightly loaded name) that shows which neighborhoods had the biggest jumps, as well as drops, in construction from 2012 or 2013.

Several weeks after being implemented in Chicago, Flu Shots — which Kompare made freely available on the code sharing site GitHub — was “forked” and implemented in Boston. Then in Philadelphia. And now in San Francisco. In each successive instance where it was implemented, local developers used data obtained from the new host city’s public health agency. What started out as a notable civic app for its high profile use in Chicago went on to become a prime example of the potential impact of civic software development and how important it is for cities to open up their data.

Ten teams and more then 40 participants took to the 3rd Ward makerspace in Kensington last weekend to compete in the third annual Apps for Philly Transit hackathon.

It was the first time the hackathon, led by Northern Liberties web firm Jarvus, took a wider transit look than just SEPTA. Find results from last year here and the 2011 Apps for SEPTA here.

Philly Transit’s third place finisher was “Septa Climate Tracker.” The app functions as a climate tracker, which the developers are hoping to mass produce, that would be attached to Septa buses as they made their rounds of the city. The trackers would collect and show on the app climate and temperature change as well as pollutant levels all in real time.

If you have an idea for improving transportation in Philadelphia that can be turned into an app, there’s an upcoming event for you.

It’s a weekend-long hackathon that starts with an idea session on Friday evening and ends with a demo session from 4 pm - 5 pm Sunday Sept. 22.

The event is a follow-up to the Apps for SEPTA hackathons of the past two years and will be held at 3rd Ward Philadelphia in Northern Liberties.

The organizers are Code for Philly, Jarvus Innovations and Code for America. They hope to have information about data sources from a variety of transportation organizations that coders can tap into for their apps, either by themselves or in combination with each other and data from SEPTA.

Creating applications that can impact education was the focus of this weekend’s AT&T EduTech Hackathon, where twelve projects competed for semi-finalist recognition for two sets of cash prizes and services that are intended to help those projects live.

Nearly a dozen small teams launched projects dedicated to improving SEPTA service during the second annual Apps for SEPTA hackathon earlier this month.

The event, hosted by Devnuts in Northern Liberties and in partnership with the transit agency, introduced a variety of applications, including one featuring an interactive way to browse transit lines, a simulator for SEPTA staff to test changes in train and bus schedules and a Foursquare app that allows users to see upcoming trains as soon as they check-in to a station.

For civic coders, data is the raw material apps are made of.

SEPTA has loads of it.

For the second time in two years, the transit agency is asking local hackers to cook up something useful.

We never thought we’d be saying this, but maybe more state and city agencies should be like SEPTA.

SEPTA, a quasi-public state agency, participated in the SEPTA “hackathon” this weekend, where software developers tried to make helpful applications related to the transportation system. And when we say SEPTA participated, we mean participated: Mark Headd, a Voxeo Labs developer and organizer of the event, said the agency not only gave geeks ready-to-use data, but actually showed up at the event this weekend.

“I’ve never been to a hackathon where the agency or organization that’s the subject, if you will, was physically present and working with developers,” he said.

An application called “Simple SEPTA” was the top prize winner among a dozen projects at the SEPTA Hackathon, reports Technically Philly.

All told, more than 30 participants took place on at least eight teams, though other side projects and deviations were shared as is often the case. At least six officials from the SEPTA emerging technologies team were on hand throughout the two-day event. In addition to a half dozen small projects to make SEPTA more rider friendly, the transit agency announcedit had opened up a dozen new data sources, as documented on a SEPTA URL including the word ‘hackathon,’ an innovation itself.

“I have never seen a city agency be this supportive and this present at a hackathon,” said Mark Headd, the Voxeo Labs developer who organized the event with web development firm Jarvus, which operates Devnuts and Technically Philly recently profiled. “So it’s no surprise we saw so many strong, viable products come out of it.”

This weekend SEPTA will be sponsoring a hackathon in an attempt to make the best use of real-time data in the form of smartphone apps. Developers will spend the weekend engineering programs that may eventually become available through Apple’s App Store or other application databases.

SEPTA hopes to join the burgeoning movement this weekend. With Devnuts, a self-described “hackerspace” in Northern Liberties, the transit agency is cosponsoring a “hackathon” aimed at quickly producing apps that utilize SEPTA’s wealth of real-time operational data.

About 25 to 30 people are expected, and you don’t need to be a software geek to participate, says Mark Headd, a Wilmington resident who has worked both sides of the government-business divide. Headd once advised Delaware’s governor on information technology. Now he’s a developer for a Florida company, Voxeo, and has helped organize half a dozen hackathons here and elsewhere.