While less than two percent of all open source code contributors identify as women, Girl Develop It Philly found last year that 10 percent of its members had contributed to open source software — way above the average — so they decided they wanted to make a conscious effort to get even more women involved […]

Unlock Philly is an open data project designed to improve access for people with disabilities, elderly people, parents with strollers and others. Unlock Philly won Philly’s instance of National Civic Hacking Day, #hack4access organized by Technical.ly Philly, this past weekend. The creator of the application, James Tyack (who also works as a software engineer in […]