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Head over to my just-published post on OC Blog to read more about OG at the #NCMR13. At the conference (miropublishing hashtag #NCMR13, I believe) – on Saturday at 2pm MT in the room Governors Square 9, I’ll do a … Continue reading →

You may already know that Austin is an amazing city to visit. Even during the SxSW conflagration, it’s one of the greatest cities I’ve been to in the States. An archevore’s paradise, with high-quality tacos & BBQ, and an independent … Continue reading →

Back in November, I wrote here that PPF was excited to be partnering with the Canadian non-profit Open North, and specifically their E.D. James McKinney, to serve as tech lead in bringing OpenGovernment.org to the city level. Since then, James … Continue reading →

Update Jan. 2013: We’re pleased to be working with Steven & Logan of Dobot, LLC, a design & development firm based in Cambridge MA who came highly recommended. So we’re set on this now, working on the layouts and user … Continue reading →

PPF is pleased to announce that we’ve teamed up with Open North, whose tech lead, James McKinney, will serve as tech lead for this next phase of OpenGovernment.org’s open-source development. Open North is a Canadian nonprofit that – like PPF … Continue reading →

The team at the Participatory Politics Foundation is very pleased to announce that we’ve received a charitable grant from the Knight Foundation to take OpenGovernment.org down to the local level as a free & open-source public resource. We’re starting in … Continue reading →

We’re proud today to announce the launch of our next state on OpenGovernment: Minnesota. Now folks in Minnesota can track with ease everything their state legislature does — all the bills that are proposed, votes that are taken, money that was … Continue reading →

Outstandingly pleased that word just came down: OpenGovernment has been selected to advance to the next day at South by Southwest Interactive’s Accelerator Contest. Thank you to the judges and the staff here for recognizing our 501(c)3 non-profit, public-mission web … Continue reading →

Two of us from the OpenGovernment team — Carl and I, hi hi — are heading down to the lovely city of Austin today to attend the SxSW Interactive conference. There, we’ll present OpenGovernment as one of eights Finalists in … Continue reading →

We needed to do simple analytics on OpenGovernment, but not of the Google Analytics variety. We needed each object in the system to have view count aggregates that we could show in real time on the page, and we needed … Continue reading →