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New Jersey civic hackers, rejoice: Code for Trenton is now a thing

Brought to you by a trio of Jersey-based civic hackers.

Open source as fuck. (Photo by Flickr user Glenn Beltz, used under a Creative Commons license)

You know about Code for Philly, the civic hacking group that’s making its way from casual meetup to fully-fledged nonprofit.
Now meet Code for Trenton.
http://www.meetup.com/Code-for-Trenton/
Code for Trenton is run by Kerrin McLaughlin, a design student at The College of New Jersey, Adam Porroni, a criminology master’s student at Penn, and Steve Chernoski, a teacher who wrote and directed a movie called New Jersey: The Movie.
Here’s a full map of Code for America brigades (both official and unofficial) in the U.S. and abroad.

Companies: Code for America
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