Open Government Hack Day

The government is making all sorts of data available to hackers. Come build something with it!

When

Sunday, September 27, 2009

10am-8pm

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Where

BetaHouse

13 Magazine Street

Cambridge, MA

Register

http://opengovhackday.eventbrite.com/

List your skills and interests on the Eventbrite page. To update it:

1) Go to http://www.eventbrite.com/mytickets

2) Click "Manage Your Order" and then "Update Attendee Information"

(Optionally, you can confirm on Facebook as well)

Organizer(s)

Jon Pierce, BetaHouse, @jonpierce, contact@jonpierce.com 

Project Ideas

Projects 

Resources

Federal

http://www.data.gov/

http://services.sunlightlabs.com/api/

http://www.opensecrets.org/action/tools.php

http://data.army.mil/

State

http://www.eot.state.ma.us/developers/

http://www.followthemoney.org/services/index.phtml

http://www.votesmart.org/services_api.php

http://www.mass.gov/mgis/download.htm

Local

http://www.metrobostondatacommon.org - source of regional GIS and other data that can be extracted

http://data.octo.dc.gov/

http://www.toronto.ca/open/

http://www.datasf.org/

People

http://api.littlesis.org/

Geo

http://geocommons.com/

Huge list here of random APIs: http://www.programmableweb.com/apitag/government?sort=date

Contests

http://www.sunlightlabs.com/contests/appsforamerica/

http://www.sunlightlabs.com/contests/appsforamerica2/

Washington, D.C. held a competition where they crowdsourced the app ideas - the complete list is here:

http://insights.appsfordemocracy.org/pages/17582-dc-wide

Competition website:

http://www.appsfordemocracy.org/

Google Transit Spec

http://code.google.com/transit/spec/transit_feed_specification.html

MBTA Data Spec

http://www.eot.state.ma.us/developers/

MassDOTDev Links: http://bit.ly/11Sxm2

Related Events

http://www.gov2summit.com/

http://www.gov2expo.com/gov2expo2009

http://congresscamp.org/

http://massdotdev.eventbrite.com/

http://mudball.net/pcamp09/