Last week at RailsConf, Sunlight held an Open Government Hackathon at the event’s official unconference, BohConf. We worked on a few projects:

• The Ruby gem for the Sunlight Congress API was updated. We added support for new fields on the Legislator resource and removed support for deprecated features.
• The developers behind search.usa.gov (a Rails app!) were there, and led development on a Ruby gem that wraps the site’s product recalls API.
• Dan Melton from Code for America led development on a Ruby gem that wraps the Small Business Administration’s API.

Speaking of Dan, he gave a keynote at RailsConf the next day:

Thanks to all who made it out and contributed!