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Deb Bryant

Deb Bryant (@debbryant)

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indie consultant specializing in the public sector use of open source software; civic advocate open government open data; community building
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Oregon
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http://www.linkedin.com/in/opengovernment

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I'm thrilled to announce that we are publishing the source code for We the People, the online petitions system that has been a popular way for the public to connect with the White House over the past year.

Since We the People went live, thousands of petitions have gathered millions of signatures from people across the country. As those petitions have come in, the White House has posted responses about an open

Anil Dash recently alerted me to a White House petition to get "government-developed software" under an open source license for the sake of allowing others to build on it and approve it.

Software paid for by the government but developed by private contractors can be under copyright

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