Before I tell you about last night, let me remind you of a bit of Code for America history. Back in 2009, I was working on the Gov 2.0 Summit along with my now-husband Tim O’Reilly. We were inspired by the notion that the principles and values of the web — not has it had been but as it was becoming, reemerging as a fundamentally participatory medium — could be applied to the difficult job of governing our country, just as those principles in action had helped to mobilize and organize hundreds of thousands of people to elect our first black President. ​ ​ That President had in turn created the roles of Chief Technology Officer and Chief Information Officer, and filled those roles with Aneesh Chopra and Vivek Kundra, respectively. Both men were working with us on the content of the conferenc