Changelog Interviews

Civic hacking

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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 Titanium
  • Anthill - Django-powered community website project that runs SunlightLabs.com
  • MediaSync - 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 tux
  • Open Government Initiative - Every .gov web site now has to outline their transparency efforts
  • Apps for America - Build a mashup, win some $$$
  • Great American Hackathon - Meetup and hack to improve your government
  • Open Government book from OReilly - Collaboration, Transparency, and Participation in Practice
  • Tweet Congress - SXSW Web Award-winning congressional Twitter directory built on Sunlight Labs API
  • Capitol Words - Amazing site and API analysis of what’s said on the floor of Congress
  • Open 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 Apple
  • Chromium OS - Google’s new OS discussed on Episode 0.0.4
  • SauceBrush - an attempt to build a python ETL library that doesn’t suck
  • Homebrew - Package management for Mac as discussed on Episode 0.1.2
  • Transparency Camp - THE unconference for government representatives, technologists, journalists, developers, NGOs, wonks and activists
  • Los Angeles Ruby Conf - See Luigi and others speak Ruby in beautiful downtown Burbank

    • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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