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    {"title" :"Civic Hacking at the White House: We the People, By the People","summary" : "On June 1st and 2nd, more than 11,000 civic activists, technology experts, and entrepreneurs around the country came together for the National Day of Civic Hacking. Civic activists, technology experts, and entrepreneurs in 83 cities developed software to help others in their own neighborhoods and across the country.","date" : "2013-06-13T10:16:48-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"lnelson" : "Lisa Nelson"},"topics" : {
        
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      "editpathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/edit/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2013/06/2013-06-13-civic-hacking-at-the-white-house-we-the-people-by-the-people.md","slug" : "civic-hacking-at-the-white-house-we-the-people-by-the-people","url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2013/06/13/civic-hacking-at-the-white-house-we-the-people-by-the-people/","content" :"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2013/06/white-house-photo-331x220.png\"\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2013/06/white-house-photo-331x220.png\"\n    alt=\"White House Hack Day Image\"/\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\u003c/a\u003eOn June 1st and 2nd, more than 11,000 civic activists, technology experts, and entrepreneurs around the country came together for the National Day of Civic Hacking. Civic activists, technology experts, and entrepreneurs in 83 cities developed software to help others in their own neighborhoods and across the country. More than twenty federal agencies took part by submitting challenges for participants to tackle and opening up datasets for them to use.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere at the White House, we celebrated the day by welcoming more than 30 developers and designers to our second hackathon, setting them loose on the new \u003ca href=\"https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/developers\"\u003eAPI for We the People\u003c/a\u003e, the White House petitions platform. For nine hours participants sat side-by-side with White House staff, techies and non-techies alike, and built new tools for finding, sharing, and analyzing We the People petitions. Several of the participants were alumni of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/03/02/looking-back-white-house-hackathon\"\u003efirst White House hackathon in February\u003c/a\u003e, who returned to share their knowledge of the We the People API, and their code, with their fellow hackers.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2013/06/514-x-270-WH-Civic-Hackathon.jpg\"\n    alt=\"Photo of hackers working at the White House civic hackathon.\"/\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy the end of the day, sixteen projects were presented to the group, and several of them have already been added to the \u003ca href=\"https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/how-why/api-gallery\"\u003eWe the People API gallery\u003c/a\u003e, which features links to working demos and downloadable code for you to use in your own projects. Among them are Yoni Ben-Meshulam’s We the Entities, which allows users to perform text-based analysis of petition data using OpenCalais, AlchemyAPI, and Semantria. Steve Grunwell’s WordPress plugin allows you to easily embed We The People petitions into your WordPress site via shortcodes and widgets. Arun Nagarajan and Daniel McLaughlin’s Google Spreadsheet integration lets you search and process petition data directly through Google Spreadsheets. Douglas Back, Yahel Carmon, Jesse Beach, and Clinton Dreisback developed Petition.io, an analytics dashboard including tools to chart signatures over time, map signature locations, and assess social media reach. \u003ca href=\"https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/how-why/api-gallery\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eCheck out the full gallery\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNaturally, we’re already thinking about what comes next. As we announced last month, we’ll be adding \u003ca href=\"http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/05/01/theres-now-api-we-people\"\u003ewrite methods for the We the People API\u003c/a\u003e, which will allow other sites, services, and apps to submit signatures to We the People petitions without sending users to the site. Once it’s ready, we’ll hold an open beta period where you’ll have the opportunity to use a pre-release version of these new methods and submit feedback for our team.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2013/06/512-x-340-WH-Hackathon-2.jpg\"\n    alt=\"Photo of participants talking at the White House hackathon.\"/\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf We the People, and the process of petitioning the White House, is going to be as flexible, open, and transparent as it can be, we need your help. Check out the Petitions project on \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/WhiteHouse/petitions\"\u003eGitHub\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https://drupal.org/project/petitions\"\u003eDrupal.org\u003c/a\u003e, then follow \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/whweb\"\u003e@WHweb\u003c/a\u003e on Twitter and \u003ca href=\"http://www.whitehouse.gov/developers/sign_up\"\u003esign up to receive updates about White House open source and open data program\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis post was originally published on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/06/05/civic-hacking-white-house-we-people-people\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eWhite House Blog\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n"}
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