http://openplans.org Technology for a better society Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:44:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We have a great opening for an Administrative & Accounts Payable Assistant: We are searching for an Administrative and Accounts Payable Assistant to keep our office and finances in order. Just as our work greases the wheels of democracy, your work will keep the wheels moving in our evolving organization. Our ... http://openplans.org/2010/03/job-opening-administrative-accounts-payable-assistant/ Our readers know how impactful civic-minded journalism can be, but it is also an honor to receive outside confirmation from esteemed organizations. Two TOPP projects were recently singled out as true movers in their fields:GothamSchools won first place in the national Educational Writers Association's 'best education blog' category for their ... http://openplans.org/2010/03/awards-for-streetsblog-and-gothamschools/ As San Francisco and Washington D.C. prepare to launch their new APIs we’d like to have other cities and managers of 311 services show their support ... http://open311.org/2010/03/show-your-support-take-the-pledge/ In preparing some data for our next round of training courses, I spent a fair amount of time today processing and cleaning the US Federal Electoral ... http://blog.opengeo.org/2010/03/01/2008-election-donation-data/ NHTS data from 2001 and 2009 shows a major increase in sustainable transportation. Image via Mobilizing the Region.Between 2001 and 2009, the ... http://www.streetsblog.org/2010/03/01/national-survey-driving-down-in-2009-sustainable-transport-up/ The US National Weather Service has a lot of weather to watch! They have sensors all over the continent, and in space, ranging from simple thermometers ... http://openplans.org/2010/02/watching-the-skies/ San Francisco recently established a new policy requiring open source software to be considered equally with commercial software within the city’s procurement process. It’s important to ... http://topplabs.org/civichacker/2010/01/cities-powered-by-open-source/ Every day at Streetsblog San Francisco, our writers and editors marvel at the intelligence and passion of our readership, though we rarely get to meet this ... http://www.streetfilms.org/streetsblog-san-francisco-shows-its-political-clout/ This week, OpenGeo released version 1.0 of our OpenGeo Suite. When we initially announced the OpenGeo Suite, it was a notion — a collection of individual software ... http://blog.opengeo.org/2010/01/25/one-point-oh/ Worthy news all around the TOPP-sphere this week:Streetsblog and TOPP Labs are both talking about the MTA's move to open up transit data on their new website. On the heels of this announcement, we're hosting the next meeting of the NYC Open Transit Data Meetup on January 20th.As the extent ... http://openplans.org/2010/01/news-round-up/