Sunlight Foundation Press Release Archive
Press Releases for December 2009
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Nearly 200 Developers Across Country Participate in Sunlight Labs' "Great American Hackathon"
Washington, DC - The Sunlight Labs, Sunlight Foundation’s open source development community, held the first “Great American Hackathon” this past weekend, attracting nearly 200 software engineers and designers from across the country. The Hackathon was comprised of over twenty events nationwide and attracted attention from some of the biggest names in software development including Sunlight Labs partners Google, RedHat, Fedora and Mozilla. All Hackathon events and participants are listed at http://www.sunlightlabs.com/hackathon09/
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Sunlight Hails White House's Open Government Directive as Bold Step Forward to Strengthen Federal Transparency
Washington, DC - The Obama administration has set an unprecedented plan into action today in its Open Government Directive that will open public access to the information and policy-making process of the federal government. Today's release of the Open Government Directive shows that the administration takes its commitment to transparency seriously. The Sunlight Foundation applauds this long-anticipated action by the Administration and is pleased to see its own recommendations heeded.
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Sunlight Makes Congressional Expenditures Easier to Search and Analyze
Washington, DC - Two days after the U.S. House of Representatives posted its quarterly Statement of Disbursements online for the first time, the Sunlight Foundation released a searchable of database of each House member's expenditures to make it easier to search how lawmakers spent their funds. The Office of the Chief Administrative Officer posted the quarterly Statement of Disbursements in PDF format at http://disbursements.house.gov.
