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Convening a trans-partisan tribe of open government advocates from all walks — government representatives, technologists, developers, ngos, wonks & activists — to share knowledge on how to use new technologies to make our government transparent and meaningfully accessible to the public.
Event details
When
- Pre-camp Tweetup Feb 27 5:30pm (More info)
- February 28th and March 1st 2009
- Registration at 8-9am on February 28th
- Kick off at 9am Saturday. Sessions until 5:30 Saturday and all day Sunday.
- Happy Hour from 6pm-8pm February 28th at McFadden's (2401 Pennsylvania Ave WDC) Map
- Day Two 9am-6pm on March 1st 2009
Where
The Institute for Politics Democracy & the Internet @ George Washington University
805 21st St., NW, Floor 3
Washington, DC 20052
Getting There
Foggy Bottom-GWU Metro is two blocks away and served by the ORANGE and BLUE lines. If you plan to drive, GWU provides affordable visitors parking nearby (map - click "Visitor Parking"), or use ParkitDC.com to find commercial parking lots and on-street parking.
Who
300 smart folks interested in enabling a more transparent government through technology innovation. Full RSVP list is here.
PLEASE ADD YOUR PROPOSED SESSION TO THIS PAGE
Sponsors
| Amount | Company | Website |
| $2,000.00 | Blue State Digital | www.bluestatedigital.com |
| $1,009.95 | O'Reilly Media, Inc. | http://oreilly.com/ |
| $1,009.95 | MindTouch, Inc | http://www.mindtouch.com/ |
| $926.00 | Sunlight Foundation | http://www.sunlightfoundation.com |
| $509.95 | GWU's Graduate School of Political Management | http://www.gspm.gwu.edu |
| $500.00 | http://www.google.com | |
| $256.25 | Acquia | http://acquia.com |
| $256.25 | Red Hat | http://www.redhat.com |
| $256.25 | Rhiza Labs | http://www.rhizalabs.com |
| $256.25 | Forum One Communications | http://www.forumone.com |
| $250.00 | istrategylabs | http://www.istrategylabs.com |
| $153.75 | Microsoft | http://www.microsoft.com |
| $153.75 | orgnet.com | http://orgnet.com |
| $102.50 | OpenGeo | http://opengeo.org |
| $102.50 | OpenID Foundation | http://openid.net/ |
| $102.50 | Knowledge As Power | http://knowledgeaspower.org |
| $102.50 | White House 2 | http://whitehouse2.org/ |
| $102.50 | Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship | http://cronkite.asu.edu |
| $102.50 | Mercury Federal Systems | http://www.mc.com |
| $102.50 | Sunshine Week | http://www.sunshineweek.org |
| $100.00 | MixtMedia | http://www.mixtmediastrategies.com |
| $52.28 | Maja Andjelkovic | |
| $51.25 | Organon Advisors | http://www.organonadvisors.com |
| $51.25 | e-thePeople | http://thevoterguide.org |
| $51.25 | Government Open Source Conference | http://www.goscon.org |
| $51.25 | The Social Collective | http://thesocialcollective.com |
| $51.25 | swan island networks | http://www.swanisland.net |
| $51.25 | Metagovernment Project | http://www.metagovernment.org |
| $51.25 | DemocracyLab | http://democracylab.org |
| $51.25 | Reno Fabulous Media | http://www.renofabulousmedia.com |
| $51.25 | PublicStuff.org | www.publicstuff.org |
| $51.25 | Open Forum Foundation | http://openforumfoundation.org |
| $51.25 | Minnesota Coalition on Gov't Information | http://www.mncogi.org |
| $51.25 | The Open Planning Project | http://theopenplanningproject.org |
| $51.25 | Center For Information Policy and E-Government | http://cipeg.umd.edu |
| $51.25 | Aquilent, Inc | http://www.aquilent.com |
| $51.25 | communityCOUNTS | http://www.communitycounts.com |
| $51.25 | NetVations, LLC. | http://www.netvations.com |
| $51.25 | CDT | http://www.cdt.org |
| $51.25 | WHOI | http://www.whoi.edu |
| $51.25 | ClickforHelp.com Inc. | http://ClickforHelp.com |
| $51.25 | Texas Watchdog | http://www.texaswatchdog.org |
| $51.25 | Independent Contractor | http://jonathancousins.com |
| $51.25 | Revenue Watch | http://www.revenuewatch.org |
| $51.25 | OpenTheGovernment.org | www.openthegovernment.org |
| $51.25 | Over The Horizon Consulting, LLC | http://www.OTHconsulting.com |
| $51.25 | Blog P.I. | http://blogpi.net |
| Total Sponsorships: | $9,689.38 |
| Eventbrite Fees Paid: | - $ 102.43 |
| Eventbrite Fees Owed: | - $ 0.00 |
| TOTAL NET SALES: | $9,586.95 |
*Paypal Fees will need to be deducted
Topic Areas Discussed
SESSION NOTES AND PRESENTATIONS ARE ON THIS PAGE
Similiar Events
Online Groups Where You Can Connect with E-Transparency/E-Democracy Builders
- US Democracy Online Exchange (for federal/state/local exchange) - Also see int'l E-Consultation/E-Participation exchange and other online groups hosted by DoWire.Org
- OpenHouseProject Google Group
- Facebook Groups: Sunlight Foundation, E-Democracy, oGosh (Open Government Open Source Hacking)
- Open-Government Google Group
- mySociety.Org developers public list (UK)
- #Tcamp09 on Twitter
- Flickr Group
- U.S. Transparency blog of news on the White House initiative for "Transparency and Open Government"