While we're participating in Google's Summer of Code, we're also looking for some great developers to come spend some time learning the ins-and-outs of public datasets over the course of the summer.
If you're a student who wants to pick up great skills-- learning how to scrape and transform data, learning how to research and verify data's accuracy or learning how to architect big-but-not-very-big datasets, or if you're a super engineer who just wants to give back this summer, we'd be happy to talk to you.
Here are our four Sunlight Labs summer slots:
Continue readingThe New SunlightLabs.com
The point here is simple: we want to make it easier for developers and designers to find ways to help, come up with ideas, and start projects of their own. We want to make it easier for you to reach out to people in your community and find people you can work with. And we wanted to make it easy for people who run projects to ask for help. So James built the new SunlightLabs to start providing you with the tools to do just that.
Continue readingCool. Sunlight Now in Second Life (Thanks to an API…)
Here is a cool development. Steve Nelson is displaying information on members of Congress inside Second Life (SLurl location) using the Sunlight Labs's still-in-beta API (Application Programming Interface).