Meet the civic hackers helping with #BaltimoreLunch

Technical.ly DC spoke with Rodney Cobb, who put together an interactive map to pinpoint where Baltimore students could get free lunches in the wake of this week's violence.

By:

Stephen Babcock, @stephenbabcock

May 1, 2015 2:22pm

Children having lunch, as they should. (Photo by Flickr user ubarchives, used under a Creative Commons license)

A technologist from D.C. was behind an effort to let folks know where Baltimore kids could get free lunches in the wake of Monday’s violence, reports Lalita Clozel of Technical.ly DC.
Schools were closed in Baltimore, which always raises a situation for the 84 percent of students who rely on free or reduced lunches.
Rodney Cobb saw the #BaltimoreLunch hashtag spreading, providing information on locations where free lunches were available. He decided to put together an interactive map to pinpoint the locations.
“Cobb and Code for DC are now considering porting over BaltimoreLunch.org content to Finda, a Code for Boston app for mapping datasets,” Clozel reports.
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