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Sunlight Labs is the technology arm of the Sunlight Foundation, a non-partisan non-profit dedicated to using the power of the Internet to catalyze greater government openness and transparency. Since our founding in the spring of 2006, Sunlight has assembled and funded an array of web-based databases and tools including OpenCongress.org, Congresspedia.org, FedSpending.org, OpenSecrets.org, EarmarkWatch.org and LOUISdb.org. In December 2008 we shifted our focus to be more community-driven and adopted a formal policy of open sourcing all of the code we produce. In the last few months we have open sourced approximately a dozen projects ranging from reusable Django applications to sites like http://publicmarkup.org, with many more in the works. We have also started to engage the developer community more actively through events like our Apps for America developer contest and with upcoming scheduled hackathons at PyCon in Chicago as well
