From OpenGovData

Welcome to oGosh: Open Government Open Source Hacking, a community focused broadly on technology projects aimed at civics, primarily U.S. projects and primarily open-source projects. Projects in the scope of this community range from improving congressional transparency to improving election and voting transparency. oGosh is a project of Josh from GovTrack.us.

oGosh has a Facebook group "oGosh". Join it to stay in the loop. There are several existing mail lists that are relevant to this community that you also might consider joining:

• The Poliparse Google group for people working in the trenches with political data to share what they're up to. See this page.
• The three mail lists at theinfo.org: This is a site for large data sets and the people who love them: the scrapers and crawlers who collect them ("get" list), the academics and geeks who process them ("process" list), the designers and artists who visualize them ("view" list).

There are also some policy-oriented mail lists:

• The OpenGovData Google group for broad policy-level discussion of data openness issues (beyond the U.S. federal level).
• The Open House Project Google group for policy-level discussion for the U.S. Congress.

Get involved!

To get involved, take a look at the list of U.S. Open Source Projects and, well, get involved!

Here are some job postings:

• MAPLight.org: Drupal Developer / MySQL Admin

August 16, 2008 IRC Meeting

An online chat took place on Saturday, August 16, 2008 at 4pm Eastern time in the IRC channel #transparency on Freenode (more info). The agenda was:

• Community members will tell other community members about the latest and greatest for their projects
• If we have people interested in getting involved in a civic project, we'll talk about how to go about doing that.

Here is a log of the chat.