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Barbara Z. Haven (@bhaven)

Twitter Bio:: I like tech trends & tech friends, improving government, open gov, non-proprietary formats, collaboration & sustainability. Not speaking for others here.
Location:: Sacramento, California
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"We the Coders": White House commits open source code on Github

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One small step for humans, one giant commit for mankind. The White House has open sourced its e-petitions platform on Github, fulfilling a commitment to the Open Government Partnership that the President of the United States made last September.

“…we’re launching a new online tool — called “We the People” — to allow Americans to directly petition the White House, and we’ll share that technology so any government in the world can enable its citizens

Roll Up Your Sleeves, Get Involved, and Get Civic-Hacking

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This summer, on June 1-2, 2013, citizens in cities across the Nation will join together to improve their communities and governments as part of the National Day of Civic Hacking.Civic Hacking Day is an opportunity for software developers, technologists, and entrepreneurs to unleash their can-do American spirit by collaboratively harnessing publicly-released data and code to create innovative solutions for problems that affect Americans. While civic hacking communities have long worked to improve our country and the world, this summer will mark the first time local developers from across the Nation unite around the shared mission of addressing