[Baypiggies] Python/Django help open up US Govt

[JC Lawrence]

I tweeted the site to the #gov20 hashtag and it has taken on a bit of  
a life of its own there.  I expect the site has been getting quite a  
bit of traffic.

-- JCL

On 5 Oct 2009, at 18:36 , Steve Lindblad wrote:

> This is very cool! (Both fedthread and the fact that the GPO is making
> the FR available as XML.)  Perfect example of how python and open
> source can empower democracy.  Do you know if they are or intend to
> publish the source code?
>
> I'm actually having a bit of trouble searching, but hopefully that is
> a temporary situation. Maybe it's more popular than they expected.
>
> Thanks for posting.
>
> On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 11:53:55AM -0700, Brent Tubbs wrote:
>> I thought this was neat enough to merit passing along.
>>
>> The team at Freedom to Tinker have put together a site (
>> http://www.fedthread.org/) that allows searching and threaded  
>> comments for
>> all US Govt regulations published in the Federal Register, going  
>> back to
>> 2000.  Any paragraph can be the start of a new conversation  
>> thread.  You can
>> have RSS or email feeds based on custom searches.  It was built on  
>> a LAMP
>> stack using Django, jQuery, and critically, the Federal Register  
>> XML feed
>> from the Government Printing Office.
>>
>> The really impressive part: there were only ten days between the  
>> initial
>> concept for the site and the launch.
>>
>> Full announcement here:
>> http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/introducing-fedthread-opening-federal-register
>
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