Civic hacking (Interview)

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. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! 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!