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.
ClearMaps
- Lead by
- Kevin Webb
- Added
- February 16, 2010
An ActionScript mapping framework for data visualization.
National Data Catalog
- Lead by
- David James
- Added
- August 12, 2009
The National Data Catalog aims to be a complete catalog of all data sets and APIs that are either put out by the government or are derived from the government. Scoped to all government levels (federal, state, and local), and all branches (executive, legislative, judicial), NDC will be the one-stop ...
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.
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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