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civictechdc / districthousing

District Housing lets caseworkers help clients apply for Section 8 housing by automatically filling out multiple PDF applications using one online form.

http://codefordc.github.io/districthousing/

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Update civic.json file to new specification #374

Closed emanuelfeld closed 8 years ago

emanuelfeld commented 8 years ago

Hi, there! Code for DC is moving to an updated civic.json specification. This pull request formats your existing civic.json to the new standard.

Feel free to look it over and make any updates.

The new civic.json spec keeps the required fields from the older one, but has a number of benefits. It:

removes fields that are hard to maintain and get out of date quickly
combines partner fields to be more broadly applicable
is usable by civic tech projects outside of government, as well as inside

You'll see that DC Government is using this standard in its own repos:

https://github.com/dcgov

You can learn more about the specification requirements here:

http://open.dc.gov/civic.json