The project was created around the localbuildingcode, which imposes each house to have a darkgraypitchedrooffor a better integrationwith the environment.
Meanwhile, three-year-old Code For America, a nonprofit that recruits experienced coders nationally for projects like building databases for local governments, has expanded its annual fellowship program from three to nine projects and last year launched a broad "brigade" of volunteer techies to work on ad hoc civic programs.