Community projects

Built by the flock. For the flock.

Every community project is open source. Browse the repos, pick an issue, and open your first pull request.

The repos

Nine things shipped. So far.

philaconvalley/website
Website
The site you're on. Philadelphia's tech community home, open for anyone to improve.
- Astro
- Tailwind
- Alpine.js
5 good first issues
philaconvalley/projectionMapper
projectionMapper
A projection mapping starter template, built for PATCH 003: Projection Mapping Lab.
- p5.js
- PATCH 003
5 good first issues
philaconvalley/community-handbook
Community Handbook
Where our philosophy, values, principles and governance live, written in the open.
- Docs
- Governance
2 good first issues
philaconvalley/shoppingDebateChromeExtension
Shopping Debate
A Chrome extension where three AI personalities argue about your purchase before you check out.
- Chrome extension
- AI
2 good first issues
philaconvalley/djVisualizer
djVisualizer
A real-time audio visualizer and effects processor for DJs.
- Web Audio API
philaconvalley/owlhacks-timer
owlhacks-timer
A countdown timer for hackathon demos, built live at OwlHacks '26.
- Built live
philaconvalley/discord-task-bot
discord-task-bot
Task assignments, due-date reminders and Scheduled Event creation, right inside Discord.
- Discord bot
philaconvalley/locked-groove
locked-groove
An open-source engine for continuous visual internet radio, where every listener stays synced to the same second.
- Streaming
philaconvalley/door-checkin
door-checkin
Tap an NFC tag at the door, post a Discord notification, and land on a welcome page.
- NFC
- Webhook

New to open source?

Those issues are picked for first-timers. Our six-step walkthrough gets you from fork to pull request.

Your first pull request

Try it here first, on the website you're looking at, before you do it anywhere else.

Fork it
Your own copy, under your account. Nothing here touches the live site.
```
github.com/philaconvalley/website → Fork
```

Pull it down to your machine so you can open the files.

git clone https://github.com/YOUR-USERNAME/website.git
cd website
npm install

Make a branch
Never work on main. Give your change its own branch.
```
git checkout -b fix/readme-typo
```
Change something small
A typo, a dead link, a stale line. Small is the point. Build before you commit, so you know nothing broke.
```
npm run build
```

Say what changed, not how you changed it.

git add README.md
git commit -m "Fix typo in README"
git push origin fix/readme-typo

Open the PR
GitHub shows a Compare and pull request button. Set the base branch to main. Someone from the flock will review it.
That's it. You're a contributor.