Department heads, Python enthusiasts and civic problem solvers meetup the first Friday of every month to crowdsource solutions in city government.

Founded by Babila Lima, director of the Business Process Improvement Office for the Baltimore City Department of General Services (DGS), the Python for City Government Process Improvement meetup was started as a way to improve Python skills in city government (as the name implies) and bring agencies together across the department of General Services to find solutions in a data driven way. (They’ll be among the mid-Atlantic technical groups represented at Technical.ly’s Super Meetup on August 13.)

“What I was drawn to was we use Python internally and I wanted to get connected to folks that were using Python,” said Billy Daly, chief technology officer of workforce development nonprofit Baltimore Corps about why he joined the meetup. “Broadly, I was really interested open sourced data projects.”

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