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GreatAmericanHackathonPittsburghEdition2009

Goals for today
Personal Narrative
Sunlight Foundation

Sunlight APIs

Obama and Open Government
Local efforts emerging -- not all federal
Other backgound links
Stimulus Notes
Non-Stimulus Projects

URL for this page: http://bit.ly/gah09pghnotes

Goals for today

Event: Great American Hackathon: the Pittsburgh Edition: http://bit.ly/hackathonpgh
Twitter: #gah09 and #gah09pgh
Host: Raymond Yee (raymond.yee@gmail.com, @rdhyee)

Introduce people to topic of open government, get people started in this topic, and set stage for possible longer term work together.

Personal Narrative

How did I get into open government and the Stimulus in particular?

my own interests in APIs + mashups + open data
stimulus collab with Erik Wilde and Eric Kansa: Proposed Guideline Clarifications for American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and Web Services for Recovery.gov
I'm now very interested in "making sense of the stimulus", including integrating it into my spring information remixing course at Berkeley.

Sunlight Foundation

Sunlight APIs

Sunlight Labs API
YQL interface -- worth studying -- interface to sunlight + usaspending.gov: Using Public Data for Good With the Power of YQL (Yahoo! Developer Network Blog)
see query in YQL interface -- perform actual query

Obama and Open Government

A lot of excitement in this field in the US because of the Obama administration's pledges of open government.

Transparency and Open Government | The White House was issued on Jan 22, 2009 -- the first day of the Obama administration (see On First Day, Obama Quickly Sets a New Tone - NYTimes.com NYT Jan 22)
Earlier this week (Dec 8) Open Government Initiative | The White House was unveiled: White House Publishes Open Government Directive — Making Government Transparent and Accountable - Sunlight Foundation Blog -- lots of buzz around what this all means. Sunlight Fdn (and others) have some analysis to read:

a possibly good critique of OGD: US Open Government Directive is Disappointing

See also:

Data.gov and ideas about Data.gov 2.0: Sunlight Labs: Blog - It's Official: Data.gov 2.0 is Coming:

Local efforts emerging -- not all federal

DC: Data Catalog
San Francisco: DataSF - Liberating City Data
New York City: NYC Data Mine
Vancouver: Vancouver's Open Data Catalogue - Beta version
Toronto: toronto.ca | Official website for the City of Toronto
Manor City, TX: Manor Labs

How about Pittsburgh? I see Connecting Citizens, Government and Political Professionals - MyGov365.com and Sunlight Labs: Projects - OpenGov.

Citycamp (Jan 22-23, 2010): BarCamp / CityCamp

Think about crime data, transit data, etc. See City-Go-Round - Bus schedules, train schedules, trip planners, transit maps, and public transit apps.

Other backgound links

Stimulus Notes

I have another page for that topic: GreatAmericanHackathonPittsburghEdition2009/StimulusNotes

Non-Stimulus Projects

We can brainstorm project ideas but also look at the list of ideas at unlight wiki list: Project Ideas - Sunlabs wiki