OpenCongress
From Sunlabs wiki
OpenCongress is a public resource website for understanding and tracking the U.S. Congress :: http://www.opencongress.org/
OpenCongress is a free, open-source, non-profit, and non-partisan joint project of the Sunlight Foundation and the Participatory Politics Foundation. The site's mission is to help build transparency in government and civic engagement.
OpenCongress combines official government data with news articles, blog posts, user comments, and social networking in order to bring to light the most useful information about Congress. More about us : http://www.opencongress.org/about
Data sources and partner organizations :: http://www.opencongress.org/about#about_information
Our site code is primarily Ruby on Rails, as well as semantic MediaWiki, and is licensed under the open-source GPL. OpenCongress is currently in version 1.0 and is in active development of new features & data sources. We're dedicated to contributing to the open-source community and we warmly encourage volunteer developers to contribute code and remix our site in non-commercial ways for their online communities.
You can check out our site code on the OpenCongress GitHub repository :: http://github.com/opencongress/opencongress/tree/master
Trac project management system & bug tracker : http://trac.opencongress.org/
"Wish List" of desired features for volunteer developers: http://trac.opencongress.org/wiki/wish_list
OpenCongress API in beta (early version of our planned API offerings, still in development but generally usable, some glitches expected but fixes coming and suggestions welcome ongoing) :: http://www.opencongress.org/api
IRC channel :: #opencongress on freenode.net
Site development email list-serv :: http://lists.ppolitics.org/listinfo.cgi/develop-ppolitics.org
Public email list-serv for updates & major site announcements :: http://list.opencongress.org/?p=subscribe
Facebook group :: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=15201705550
Twitter :: http://twitter.com/opencongress
Individuals and organizations use OpenCongress to track developments with all their interests in Congress: bills, votes, issues, elected officials, and more. Site visitors use built-in sharing tools and social networking to spread this helpfully "filtered-up" information to their wider online communities. More about "My OpenCongress" social networking and tracking :: http://www.opencongress.org/articles/view/386
Questions, feedback, suggestions? Contact :: writeus@opencongress.org.
