The Society of Web Artists and Programmers, based at the Art Institute of California, San Francisco, along with Freebase contributor Raymond Yee from the UC Berkeley’s School of Information, are organising Open Democracy meetup to be held at Freebase HQ on March 11th.

President Barack Obama has promised an era of unprecedented transparency for the US government. In anticipation of vast flows of data from the federal government in the weeks and months to come, we are organizing a SF Bay Area local interest group around tracking and interpreting this data. An immediate catalyst and focus for this first meeting is the Sunlight Foundation’s Apps for America Competition (with entries due March 31, 2009). However, we welcome folks interested in the larger topic of government transparency, whether they plan to take part in the immediate competition.

Open democracy and open government are subjects we’re very interested in here at Freebase (it was the theme of our Hack Day last November), so we’re very pleased to be able to play host to this event.

Date/Time:
Wednesday March 11th, 6:30pm-9:30pm

Location:
Metaweb Technologies, 631 Howard St (4th floor), San Francisco, California

If you’d like to attend, please RSVP at meetup.com.