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. 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 (CSSF), 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.

• 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

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

Code & Supply previously ran a coworking space that contributed most of the funding for the meeting space for C&S events, including many other Pittsburgh-area tech organizations that met in the space at no charge. More than 100 people called this space home for anywhere from a month up to around five years for our longest-resident member.

See our press coverage archive.

• October: OpenHack Pittsburgh announced

• September: codeandsupply.co registered

• March 20: Code & Supply incorporated and announced in "Going to try to change how tech meetups work in Pittsburgh"
  • "I created @codeandsupply because the friendships I’ve created in @pghrb, @PghClojure, @pghpy, etc aren’t restricted by programming language" - Justin Reese
• March 31: OpenHack Pittsburgh moves under Code & Supply as the first C&S event
• July: OpenHack becomes C&S Hack Night

• August: C&S underwrites devopsdays Pittsburgh

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

• 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

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

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

• 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

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

• 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

• February: First wave of tech sector layoffs hits C&S hard
• June: Third Compensation Survey Report released with Technical.ly announcing it
• September: 10th anniversary celebrated with Technical.ly; Meetup crosses 5,000 members; YouTube crosses 6,700 subscribers
• October: Build Night for Hacktoberfest returns on Mondays through the month, first month with each week having one event
• October: C&S Workspace nominated for Coworking Space of the Year in 2023 XchangePgh Xchange Awards
• November: C&S hosts Global Day of Codetreat for the 10th time in 12 years (write-up)
• November: C&S nominated for Tech Community Leader of the Year in the 2023 Technical.ly Awards for Pittsburgh
• November: C&S is voted Tech Community Leader of the Year in the 2023 Technical.ly Awards for Pittsburgh

• October: Announced closure of Workspace in C&S Workspace and Community Center will close December 2024
• November: Workspace closure delayed until January 2025 courtesy of new landlord

• January 2025: Workspace closes after eight years.

Last updated: March 2025 — 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
Meetup members	5,226
Chat members	3,992
@abstractionscon Twitter followers	3,006
@codeandsupply Twitter followers	2,143
Instagram followers	786
@uptimeconf Twitter followers	404
Facebook Page likes	348
@heartifactsconf Twitter followers	308
Fediverse / Mastodon followers
Bluesky	20
Twitch subscribers	78

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

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

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

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.

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See these:

• Code & Supply Flickr
• Code & Supply Instagram
• Code & Supply Fediverse

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, 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!

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

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.

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.

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.