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Code & Supply Press Kit

What is Code & Supply?

Code & Supply Co. is a Pittsburgh-based but worldwide community of software professionals, enthusiasts, students, and more. C&S, founded in 2013 and incorporated in 2014, started as a Meetup group (Pittsburgh Code & Supply), chat community, and job board before expanding into hosting large technology conferences such as Abstractions, Heartifacts, and Uptime and operating a coworking space that contributes a majority of the funding for the meeting space for C&S events and many other Pittsburgh-area tech organizations. C&S also conducts the biennial-ish Compensation Survey for Tech Workers, which captures a snapshot of tech workers' compensation, work life, job satisfaction, commute, tools, and more.

In 2016, a generous philanthropist software engineer funded the creation of the non-profit Code & Supply Scholarship Fund, a separate legal entity that awards software conference travel scholarships and other educational experience funding with a focus on promoting and enabling the Pittsburgh software community.

What are C&S' lines of business?

  • Conferences
  • Meetups
  • Online Communities (Slack, YouTube, Twitch, Instagram, Fediverse/Mastodon, Twitter)
  • Job Board
  • Tech Worker Compensation Survey and other knowledge-sharing initiatives
  • Logo and coding, techie, and geek merchandise
  • Co-working space, individual and group rental

CSSF runs as an entirely separate organization. See What is the relationship between Code & Supply Scholarship Fund and Code & Supply Company? for more information.

What other have other media outlets written about Code & Supply?

See our press coverage archive.

Rough Timeline of Major C&S Events and Milestones

2012

2013

  • September: codeandsupply.co registered

2014

2015

  • August: C&S underwrites devopsdays Pittsburgh

2016

  • March: C&S leases office and presentation space at StartUptown's Paramount Film Exchange building
  • August: Abstractions
  • October: Code & Supply Scholarship Fund, Inc. created

2017

  • February: Workspace opens above Sharp Edge Beer Emporium on Friendship Ave in East Liberty
  • August: Uptime
  • Some time: C&S assumes ownership of steelcityruby.org and related assets, sets up museum for Steel City Ruby

2018

  • January: Workspace expands to the entire third floor of Friendship Ave location
  • April: Heartifacts

2019

  • August: Abstractions II
  • November: Meetups reach 18 days of events at Workspace in one month

2020

  • January: Only one open desk available at Workspace
  • March: Pandemic national emergency temporarily closes Workspace, but 60% of members keep subscription in order to keep the facility open
  • August: Heartifacts
  • November: Workspace re-opens under pandemic restrictions

2021

  • October: In-person events resume with four special Build Night for Hacktoberfest on Mondays through the month

2022

  • February: Monthly Build Night events resume
  • August: only one open desk available at Workspace, daily coworking users back to pre-pandemic levels
  • August: C&S Workspace nominated for Best Coworking Space in Pittsburgh City Paper's Best of Burgh Awards
  • September: In-person lectures resume in earnest
  • October: Build Night for Hacktoberfest returns on Mondays through the month, first month with each week having one event
  • December: Only one open desk available at Workspace

2023

C&S By the Numbers

Last updated: December 2023 — nudge us, and we'll update this if it's really old.

N.b. social media is not a focused growth area for C&S operations; we allow these to grow organically.

Metric Count
C&S Members (participants in Meetups, conferences, etc.) 7,000–8,000
Mailing list subscribers > 8,000
YouTube subscribers YouTube Channel Subscribers YouTube Channel Views
Meetup members 5,038
Chat members 3,811
@abstractionscon Twitter followers 3,006
@codeandsupply Twitter followers 2,294
Instagram followers 790
@uptimeconf Twitter followers 404
Facebook Page likes 348
@heartifactsconf Twitter followers 308
Fediverse / Mastodon followers Mastodon Followers
Twitch subscribers 73

Logos

See our assets repo for the full set but we tend to use these the most.

Wordmark logo

Use the wordmark logo where there's inadequate context to link "Code & Supply" with our logo.

Code & Supply Wordmark logo

We have it in a variety of formats available by clicking on the wordmark logo above.

Imprint logo

Use the imprint in contexts where "Code & Supply" will be written and visually associated with the logo.

See the imprint logos for variations. N.b. most of the most useful files are in the "bruteforce" directory.

For Code & Supply Co.

Code & Supply Imprint Logo red bg, red border, white lettering SVG PNG

Code & Supply Imprint Logo transparent bg, white border, white lettering SVG PNG

Code & Supply Imprint Logo white bg, red border, red lettering SVG PNG

For Code & Supply Scholarship Fund

Code & Supply Imprint Logo black bg, red border, white lettering SVG PNG

Pictures of Code & Supply events and Workspace

See these:

How to refer to Code & Supply

When referring to Code & Supply, please remember these:

  • It's acceptable to refer to all Code & Supply efforts as "Code & Supply" but if you need to be specific about which part of Code & Supply or will be talking about both orgs in the same context, use something closer to our legal names:

    • Code & Supply Co. - Meetups, conferences, Workspace coworking, chat communities, etc.
    • Code & Supply Scholarship Fund - our sibling non-profit organization that funds conference travel and other educational experiences

    We commonly refer to these as "Co" and "Fund" when we have reason to disambiguate.

  • Use "Code & Supply" on first reference for Co. Please use the ampersand.

  • Use "Code & Supply Scholarship Fund" on first reference for Fund.

  • It's acceptable to abbreviate on subsequent references. Use "C&S" for "Co" and "CSSF" for "Fund" references.

  • It's acceptable to use "codeandsupply" only when referring to one of our communities or resources by its account or server name, e.g. @codeandsupply for most of our social media accounts.

Do not:

  • Refer to Code & Supply as "CNS" or "CnS" or "CaS" or "CAS" or any other abbrevation of 'and'— just use the ampersand. It's a & in HTML if you're writing raw HTML!

What's the difference between Co and Fund?

See What is the relationship between Code & Supply Scholarship Fund and Code & Supply Company?.

Who are the people behind C&S?

Principals

Justin REESE is the Founding Executive Director of C&S. Reese is originally from McKeesport, Penna. and has a B.S. Information Science from University of Pittsburgh. Outside of C&S, Reese is a software consultant as Builder CodeWorks and serves on the board CSSF and of the Western Penna. Regional Data Center.

Colin DEAN is the Managing Director of C&S. Dean is originally from Volant, Penna. and has a B.S. in Computer Science from Westminster College and a M.S. Education from Robert Morris University. Outside of C&S, Dean is a software engineer for a private company. He is on the board of CSSF and Homebrew, and is the founding past president of Meta Mesh Wireless Communities / Community Internet Solutions.

Directing Contributors

Yvette Jenny MENASE is the Director of Surveys for C&S. She is originally from Washington, D.C., and has a B.A. from the University of Maryland. Outside of C&S, Menase is a product manager for a private company and a career coach.

Other Contributors

Conduct Team. The CT helps to enforce the C&S Conduct Policy and advise C&S leadership on related matters. While its general membership is kept private, its principals are Sarah WITHEE and Carol SMITH.

Conference Team. Membership of our conference team changes with every conference. Past conference teams have included:

  • Sarah WITHEE
  • Brigette LEFEVER
  • Matthew BEATTY
  • Jenny MANNING
  • Jean LANGE
  • Jared WILKERSON
  • Greg CHABRA
  • Eric SWANSON
  • Bartholowmew ELLIOTT
  • Michael PACCHOLI
  • Nate SMITH
  • Jonathan SHAFFER
  • Andy MOOK
  • Beth Lynn EICHER
  • Anna FILIPOVA
  • Alex TAMBELLINI
  • Emma TRIMBLE
  • Jackie REESE
  • Janna MORDEN

CSSF Selection Team. Membership of the CSSF Selection Team is private in order to maintain a double-blind operation when considering scholarship applicants.