These are active projects that are currently being worked on in the labs community.
Feel free to help on a project you're interested in or just keep your eye out for the final product.
WeHaveWeNeed.org
- Lead by
- Jeremy
- Added
- January 26, 2010
WeHaveWeNeed.org is built by a group of geeky do-gooders who saw this as an opportunity to use technology to help bring people and donations together in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake in Haiti.
Drumbone Data Server
- Lead by
- Eric
- Added
- January 20, 2010
Drumbone is a data server that aggregates information about legislators in fast, simple JSON. Information is stored flatly in a schemaless database (using MongoDB) and documents can be augmented by arbitrary parsers and loaders.
Open CRS Reader
- Lead by
- Joshua Ruihley
- Added
- January 12, 2010
Center for Democracy & Technology's Open CRS reader application for iPhone
Ideas
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NationBuilder
- Posted by
- Jim Gilliam
- Date
- August 9, 2009
An open source platform for running adhocracies online, based on priorities, not voting.
I'm InterestedOPML The Federal Government
- Posted by
- Clay Johnson
- Date
- August 13, 2009
Many projects need to have a list of all the federal agencies-- for a dropdown or a select box or whatever. We need to create a project that simply provides an OPML file of all the federal agencies.
I'm InterestedOpenSecrets (Or FEC) + Gmail
- Posted by
- Clay Johnson
- Date
- August 13, 2009
Build a greasemonkey extension on top of the OpenSecrets.org (or the FEC database itself) that tells you the campaign contributions of the person you've received an email from. (Another one that highlights emails from registered federal lobbyists?)
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