Sunlight Labs Blog

The sunlight foundation does an amazing job of connecting volunteer engineers with opportunities to help make the US government more transparent and accountable: http://sunlightlabs.com/

I agree and http://sunlightlabs.com has been doing a great job, I see them at many tech conferences hosting their hackathons

As a federal government employee, I think our best hope is to just release as much data as possible and let the private sector come up with innovative solutions to give to the citizens. http://sunlightlabs.com/ have the right idea. A lot of projects and initiatives we are beginning to see is to make information easier to consume for computer systems to access government data (labor, financial, law) through data formats like XML, JSON, RDF, etc. These have all been initiatives going on before the Obama administration. With the downturn in the private sector, entrepreneurs are looking to capitalize. My big point is the best way to do this is outside of the government. Don't go looking for a government contract or get on the GSA Schedule, you will become just another government contractor and won't own the finished product. Get the data and make a product citizens want. Unlike one point the article makes, do not have US Government as a customer.

Sunlight Foundation is actively working on this sort of thing. Join their mailing list. http://sunlightfoundation.com/ http://sunlightlabs.com/

If you haven't already, you might want to take a look at some of the projects put together by the Sunlight Foundation (http://sunlightfoundation.com/projects/). In addition, their developer section (http://sunlightlabs.com/) is full of APIs and datasets for dealing with government transparency data.

come help the Sunlight Foundation. Please! http://sunlightlabs.com

The Sunlight Foundation tried to put together a bid on this. Here's their recap of the process: http://www.sunlightlabs.com/blog/2009/06/25/recoverygov-bid-we-failed Think you're better than a bunch of freetard hippies? That's a joke; I'm a big Sunlight Foundation fan, and they do some great work. The fact that they couldn't pull together a bid should give you pause.

Holy cow! The clerk of the house will start hosting all bills in XML on Jan 1st 2012! http://sunlightlabs.com/blog/2011/house-approves-sweeping-open-data-st…

I'm all for open government data. You may want to take a look at Sunlight Foundation's various projects: http://sunlightlabs.com/projects/ And have you seen Open Congress yet? http://opencongress.org/

We'll be working on a Ruby library for Open311 at RubyConf: http://sunlightlabs.com/rubyconf/

Read http://sunlightlabs.com/blog/2010/elenas-inbox/ -- this data is extracted from a PDF of data OCRed from a printout from a web interface to the actual email archive. Yuck.

Check it out ... and then use the data from the National Data Catalog to win $5K in one of the "Design for America" categories: http://sunlightlabs.com/contests/designforamerica/

data.gov isn't intended to be any more than a data layer. If you want stuff that a human can consume, turn to one of the data.gov challenge contestants ( http://sunlightlabs.com/contests/appsforamerica2/apps/ ) or http://analyzethe.us .

Do you mean http://www.sunlightlabs.com/contests/appsforamerica2/ ?

clickable urls Django Software Foundation. http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/SummerOfCode2011 Python Software Foundation Ideas, http://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode/2011 Code For America. http://codeforamerica.org/projects/ Sunlight labs http://sunlightlabs.com/wiki/GSOC_2011/ Helsinki Institute for Information Technology http://wiki.hiit.fi/display/gsoc2011/GSOC+2011+Idea+page Sencha Labs http://thejit.org/ideas/ Sakai https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/MGT/Google+Summer+of+Code+…