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Got natural disasters? There's an open source emergency preparedness toolkit for that

If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area and woke up at to a 6.1 earthquake at 3:30 a.m. this morning, now would be a good time for citizens and local governments everywhere to take a look at City72 Toolkit.

Join us at the 2014 Code for America Summit

The 2014 Code for America Summit is set for September 23-24 and registration is now open.

Models for API driven startups built around public data

I had a conversation with a venture capitalist recently who was looking for information on startups who had APIs and had built their company around public data.

Feds didn't say agile development contributed to Healthcare.gov failure

A recent VentureBeat headline misleadingly suggests agile development practices were the cause of Healthcare.gov's "failure."

It's time for open data on open data

Recent conversations I've had with municipal executives managing open data programs indicate that traction around open data platform usage isn't meeting their personal expectations.