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You may have noticed, we've redesigned our site. Our awesome new designer, Ali made it and we're excited to have her as part of our team. And we're excited about the new website too. Especially those things on the right that allow us to update what we're working on via twitter.
The website isn't the only thing we're redesigning. We're also redesigning how Sunlight Labs works. We're clearly no longer the six-month pilot project we were chartered to be 31 months ago. We're now a team of great developers using technology to change the way our Congress operates and have been for quite some time. So we're long overdue for a gear-shift in the way we think about Sunlight Labs and how we work. We see three fundamental shifts in how we think about ourselves now vs. how the Labs was conceived.
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reddit.com recently unveiled FeedANeed.org, an charity drive designed to connect volunteers with worthy nonprofits in need of some form of assistance from the community.
FeedANeed allows anyone to vote for worthy nonprofits and/or sign up to volunteer some chunk of their time to top vote-getting organizations. Volunteers that complete their pledged time by February 14th, 2009 will be entered into a drawing for prizes from various sponsors (from a wide variety of organizations Wired, EFF, Baconfreak, and even Sunlight Foundation).
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I took a few minutes this morning to look at the technology that powers the DNC and RNC convention web sites. It is always interesting to see what technological decisions different organizations take when they are trying to accomplish similar goals.