Adam and Wynn caught up with Luigi Montanez and Jeremy Carbaugh from Sunlight Labs and discussed their Python and Ruby projects, government transparency, and civic hacking - open source contributions as activism.
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Featuring:
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Real Time Congress - iPhone app for keeping tabs on Congress, built with Appcelerator TitaniumAnthill - Django-powered community website project that runs SunlightLabs.comMediaSync - Django Toolkit to simplify the static media development and deployment.Sunlight Labs API - Congressional data served up for your next mashup.Underscore.js - The tie for jQuery’s tuxOpen Government Initiative - Every .gov web site now has to outline their transparency effortsApps for America - Build a mashup, win some $$$Great American Hackathon - Meetup and hack to improve your governmentOpen Government book from OReilly - Collaboration, Transparency, and Participation in PracticeTweet Congress - SXSW Web Award-winning congressional Twitter directory built on Sunlight Labs APICapitol Words - Amazing site and API analysis of what’s said on the floor of CongressOpen Congress - Browse, read, discuss, and vote on legislation before Congress.Code for America - Connecting city governments and Web 2.0 talent.Some new gadget from AppleChromium OS - Google’s new OS discussed on Episode 0.0.4SauceBrush - an attempt to build a python ETL library that doesn’t suckHomebrew - Package management for Mac as discussed on Episode 0.1.2Transparency Camp - THE unconference for government representatives, technologists, journalists, developers, NGOs, wonks and activistsLos Angeles Ruby Conf - See Luigi and others speak Ruby in beautiful downtown BurbankSomething missing or broken? PRs welcome!