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Join today!\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Featuring:\u003C/p>\u003Cul>\u003Cli>Adam Stacoviak – \u003Ca href=\"https://adamstacoviak.com/\" rel=\"external ugc\">Website\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"https://github.com/adamstac\" rel=\"external ugc\">GitHub\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamstacoviak\" rel=\"external ugc\">LinkedIn\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"https://changelog.social/@adam\" rel=\"external ugc\">Mastodon\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"https://x.com/adamstac\" rel=\"external ugc\">X\u003C/a>\u003C/li>\u003Cli>Wynn Netherland – \u003Ca href=\"https://github.com/pengwynn\" rel=\"external ugc\">GitHub\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"https://x.com/pengwynn\" rel=\"external ugc\">X\u003C/a>\u003C/li>\u003C/ul>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Show Notes:\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/tashian\">Carl Tashian\u003C/a> is Director of Technology at \u003Ca href=\"http://opengovernment.org/\">Open Government\u003C/a>\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"http://thechangelog.com/post/2596290871/opengovernment-empower-individuals-and-organizations\">OpenGovernment: Empower individuals and organizations to track government at every level\u003C/a>\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"http://www.opencongress.org/\">OpenCongress.org\u003C/a> - open source Rails app to track the goings on in the US Congress\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>Library of Congress \u003Ca href=\"http://thomas.loc.gov/\">THOMAS\u003C/a> site is the source for federal legislative information\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"http://opengovernment.org/home\">OpenGovernment.org\u003C/a>, a public resource for government transparency at the state, city, and local levels. Free and open-source.\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"http://sunlightlabs.com/blog/2010/introducing-open-state-project-api/\">Open States API\u003C/a>\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>The \u003Ca href=\"http://sunlightfoundation.com/\">Sunlight Foundation\u003C/a> aims to make government transparent and accountable\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>Wynn helped create \u003Ca href=\"http://tweetcongress.org/\">TweetCongress.org\u003C/a> winner of a \u003Ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwlQgOdagp8\">SXSW 2009 Web award for activism\u003C/a>, making use of Sunlight APIs\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"http://tx.opengovernment.org/money_trail\">Follow the money\u003C/a> and connect the dots between bills, key votes, and campaign donations.\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"http://transparencydata.com/\">Transparency Data\u003C/a> is a central source for federal lobbying disclosure, federal grants and contracts, earmarks and federal and state campaign contributions, complete with it’s own \u003Ca href=\"http://transparencydata.com/api/\">API\u003C/a>\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"http://thechangelog.com/post/3049792102/govkit-ruby-wrappers-for-open-government-apis-around-the\">GovKit\u003C/a>\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"http://luigimontanez.com/\">Luigi Montanez\u003C/a> and Wynn wrote a \u003Ca href=\"https://github.com/pengwynn/transparency-data\">wrapper\u003C/a> for Transparency Data\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"http://fog.io/\">Fog\u003C/a>, the Ruby cloud services library\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>Carl worked at \u003Ca href=\"http://www.zipcar.com/\">ZipCar\u003C/a> prior to joining Open Government\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>Syncing large datasets from different providers is a big challenge\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"http://www.postgresql.org/\">PostgreSQL\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://postgis.refractions.net/\">PostGIS\u003C/a> power the backend of OpenGovernment\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/Welcome\">GeoServer\u003C/a> is an open source software server written in Java that allows users to share and edit geospatial data.\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"http://mongodb.org\">MongoDB\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://rack.rubyforge.org/\">Rack\u003C/a> provide a fast way to track page views in the app\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>Sunlight, \u003Ca href=\"http://codeforamerica.org/\">Code for America\u003C/a>, and Open Government - rise of the Citizen Coder?\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"http://oakland.crimespotting.org/\">Oakland Crimespotting\u003C/a> is a case study on developers having an impact on government\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"http://www.documentcloud.org/\">DocumentCloud\u003C/a>, featured in \u003Ca href=\"http://thechangelog.com/post/272530971/episode-0-0-5-document-cloud\">Episode 0.0.5\u003C/a>\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"https://github.com/documentcloud/jammit\">Jammit\u003C/a>, Industrial Strength Asset Packaging for Rails\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>Pythonistas, why not help out by \u003Ca href=\"http://openstates.sunlightlabs.com/\">creating a scraper for your state\u003C/a>?\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>Kenneth and Wynn \u003Ca href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/pengwynn/status/30698246452019200\">debate the best terminal font\u003C/a>\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Something missing or broken? \u003Ca href=\"https://github.com/thechangelog/show-notes/blob/master/podcast/the-changelog-47.md\">PRs welcome!\u003C/a>\u003C/p>","https://op3.dev/e/https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/https://cdn.changelog.com/uploads/podcast/47/the-changelog-47.mp3","audio/mpeg",16026487,"Tue, 01 Feb 2011 14:00:00 +0000",1959,"https://cdn.changelog.com/uploads/covers/changelog-interviews-original.png?v=63848368174","full","https://changelog.com/podcast/47",{"persons":116},[117,118],{"name":19,"role":20,"img":21,"href":22},{"name":119,"role":20,"img":120,"href":121},"Wynn Netherland","https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/7e19cd5486b5d6dc1ef90e671ba52ae0.jpg?s=600&d=mm","https://changelog.com/person/pengwynn",null,1771793542085]