A fine hat tip to Lisa Nelson for sharing this on Twitter. Have you seen the new White House Web API Standards? On Github github.com/WhiteHouse/api…— Lisa Nelson (@LisaLNelson) March 21, 2013 From the readme: This document provides guidelines and examples for White House Web APIs, encouraging consistency, maintainability, and best practices across applications. White House [...]
Open Government
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We’ve been covering the topics of open government and open data since nearly the start of The Changelog. More recently, we covered the city of Chicago being on Github and how they open sourced various datasets for civic and commercial usage. Needless to say, the topics open government and open data is something we hackers [...]
The City of Chicago is on Github right
Recently the City of Chicago released five datasets under an open source MIT License on GitHub. The datasets released are: Street center lines in Chicago Building footprints in Chicago Bike routes in Chicago Pedway routes in Chicago Bike rack locations in Chicago They had this to say: Anyone can now change the data when new [...]
Episode 0.6.5 – Code for America with Erik Michaels-Ober and Max Ogden
Adam and Wynn caught up with Erik and Max, Fellows at Code for America to talk about civic-focused development and open source. Items mentioned in the show: Apply now to be a 2012 Code for America Fellow – Deadline is July 31 LSRC V is just around the corner Follow @TheSassWay for your Sass news [...]
Episode 0.4.7 – Open Government and the Citizen Coder with Carl Tashian
Adam and Wynn caught up with Carl Tashian from Open Government to talk about OpenGovernment.org, OpenCongress.org, and the rise of the Citizen Coder. Items mentioned in the show: Carl Tashian is Director of Technology at Open Government OpenGovernment: Empower individuals and organizations to track government at every level OpenCongress.org – open source Rails app to [...]
govkit: Open Government APIs in a box right
In the same way that Fog aims to be the “Ruby cloud services library” by providing an all-in-one bundle of wrappers for popular cloud services including Amazon, Rackspace, and others, GovKit from OpenGovernment is a Swiss Army Knife of government API wrappers. GovKit currently supports: OpenCongress, which has an API for federal bills, votes, people, [...]
OpenGovernment: Empower individuals and organizations to track government at every level right
When 9 Trillion dollars goes missing from the Federal Reserve and the Federal Inspector General can’t explain the details of that missing money, what can “we” the people do about it? (See a visualization of 1 Trillion Dollars) Watch this YouTube video to learn more about this insane debacle. Sadly, Alan Grayson (the questioner) never [...]
Episode 0.1.3 – Civic hacking with Luigi Montanez and Jeremy Carbaugh from Sunlight Labs
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. Items mentioned in the show: Real Time Congress – iPhone app for keeping tabs on Congress, built with Appcelerator Titanium Anthill – Django-powered [...]