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Open source technologies, communities, and methodologies are playing an increasingly important role in international governments and policy-making. Learn more about open government.

Gluster rocks the vote

Rock the Vote needed a way to manage the fast growth of the data handled by its Web-based voter registration application. The organization turned to GlusterFS replicated…

Exploring open source software developed for European libraries

Developers and project managers involved in open source software projects for public libraries in Denmark, France, the Netherlands, and the Czech Republic took a first step to…

How to build a sustainable nonprofit the open source way

Ozone Widget Framework required to be open source under congressional law

The Ozone Widget Framework went open source recently. Ozone is: A customizable open-source web application that assembles the tools you need to accomplish any task and enables…

Download free eBook about the principles of open government

Download our free eBook: Open Voices : Applying open source principles to government This is the soft launch in PDF form of this eBook that collects our best articles about…

Public access to scientific research endorsed by White House

The White House responded last week to the petition: Increasing Public Access to the Results of Scientific Research . It was posted to the We the People petition site and got…

Open states: Transparency for state governments using open data

Open States gathers legislative data from all 50 states

After more than four years of work from volunteers and a full-time team here at Sunlight we're immensely proud to launch the full Open States site with searchable legislative…

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