their city planners. >> cities are going bankrupt, and the stuff that we're building really can change kind of the bottom line of these cities. >> we proudly use the word geek. we call ourselves the peace corps for geeks. we've got 26 fellows working across eight cities. not every code for america follows a programmer. i'm actually interim planner by trade. code for america is this really interesting mix of people. we have a lawyer, we have designers coming together with programmers to really make beautiful and effective products. they spend a lot of time with the cities, but actually they're based here in san francisco at our offices. we're here on ninth street in the civic center area of san francisco. each of the teams has a space here where they're moving their sticky notes or they brainstorm things around. our detroit team took this prime real estate in the office, which is great. they are working the problem of