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-# community_commitments
-Corresponds with #community_commitments channel in Slack
+# Code with Asheville Community Commitments
+_Corresponds with #community_commitments channel in Slack_
+
+This repo is where Code with Asheville stores, reviews, and updates it's core mission, values, and code of conduct documents.
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+# We are Code with Asheville
+(Formerly Code for Asheville)
+
+We are people who care about our community and want to help make it better.
+We use technology to address social issues that impact our community.
+
+- We build apps, websites and dashboards.
+- We connect communities with essential technologies.
+- We help grass-roots activists use data to inform their policy advocacy.
+
+And we’re not just coders.
+Code with Asheville members range from hard-core programmers and data geeks to neighborhood organizers and social activists working with local governments to find creative solutions to our common challenges.
+
+## What we do
+**Civic Technology**
+Projects that create new capabilities in our community, like Sunshine Request, the Reentry Hub, or the Beloved Computer Lab.
+
+**Data for Policy Advocacy**
+Projects that help the community use data to more effectively advocate for positive change, such as the work on racial disparities in traffic stops or homeless interactions with law enforcement.
+
+**Bringing People Together**
+Events and activities that forge new connections within our communities, such as ReRoute AVL, Open Data Day and our collaboration with UniteWNC.