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Democracy and Technology
I am excited to be giving a talk on my pet project disclosed.ca and open government at the Democracy and Technology pre-conference in Montreal, Concordia University. May 29 2009.
The topic of Open Government is very popular right now, especially so in the US. The Obama administration opened Pandora's box by launching recovery.gov earlier this year to track stimulus spending. There's now a parallel effort at recovery.org launched by a commercial entity. The Sunlight Foundation is also on a roll in the US to improve citizens' access to information. When I was at PyCon (an open source programming language conference) in Chicago a week ago, Sunlight had setup a 2 day sprint session where programmers passionate about the topic of open government could contribute their time to the cause by developing programs to download the disparate government data like legislation information into a common database format. Close to 30 people participated.
The momentum is definitely there. And Canada is not far behind. Here we have VisibleGovernment which is trying to be Canada's version of the Sunlight Foundation.
The future looks bright!
PyCon 2009
I will be attending PyCon 2009 in Chicago from March 26 - 31.
Presentation at Toronto Perl Mongers
I will be giving a short talk to the Toronto Perl Mongers on Feb 26, 2009. The topic is tentatively titled: "Using TAP::Harness::JUnit to expose your unit tests as part of a Hudson job"
New Site Launch
We are proud to announce our fresh new website for 2009. We have chosen Plone, one of the leading content management systems as the engine behind our website. We are confident that its ease of use and intuitive content publishing will streamline our processes and customer communications. Thanks to our wonderful host, Scryent for the excellent service and support.
Democracy and Technology
