Laddr -- pronounced "ladder" and named after the essential tool for fire brigades -- is an online homebase for your local Code for America Brigade. It is designed to be cheap-to-host and easy-to-hack platform for civic hacking groups to maintain an online precense and automate support for their real-world operations.
There are three ways to get started with Laddr:
- Request free hosting of a copy for your brigade, courtesy of Code for Philly
- Clone laddr to work on and contribute to its core, shared functionality
- Extend laddr to create a workspace for customizing a copy of laddr for your brigade without forking the whole thing
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- Laddr forum/wiki
- #laddr channel in Code for Philly's Slack
- #laddr channel in Code for America's Slack
- laddr issues on GitHub
Guides and support are available at our Discourse forum at
Join Code for Philly's Slack channel for Laddr, you can self-register via codeforphilly.org:
- Projects Directory
- Each project can have a users URL, developers URL, markdown README
- Projects can be tagged by topic, tech, and event
- Projects list available via dynamic CSV for linking to CfAPI
- Members Directory
- Members can upload photos, write a bio in markdown, and tag themselves with topic and tech tags
- Meetup.com integration
- Upcoming events pulled from meetup.com API for homepage sidebar
- Current and next event highlighted
- Members can checkin to current event and optionally pick what project they're working on
- Project Updates
- Any project member can post markdown-formatted "updates" to a project
- Updates show up on the project's page, the home page, the global updates feed
- RSS feeds for global and per-project updates
- Project Buzz
- Any site member can log a media article about a project
- Attach photo and an exerpt
- Buzz shows up on the project's page, the home page, and the global buzz feed
- Big Screen
- A live status page for display during events
- Latest member checkins to event
- Markdown box for announcements
- Localizable
- Language selector in the footer for visitors and configurable site-wide default language
- English and Spanish translations available
- Croatian and Korean translations in progress