GreenRiver.org welcomes Todd Cesere to our team! Here he is falling out of the locust tree behind the Key Bank where we walk GreenRIver.org dogs Bailey and Daphne. This is where we found him ;-)
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GreenRiver.org celebrates its 10 year anniversary and New Year’s Eve with a bang: Fireworks over the meadow in Green River village in Guilford, VT!
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GreenRiver.org begins its work with the Open Society Institute, a nonprofit founded by George Soros whose mission involves protecting and improving the lives of people in marginalized communities. We will be working with NY Design shop Sway Design to build an application showcasing OSI’s meta-analysis of thousands of studies of HIV interventions. These are studies of projects meeting the needs of women and girls in developing countries facing the AIDS pandemic. The analysis also highlights the gaps in knowledge or programming remaining to be addressed.
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Ben and I are humbled by the kind words of Sen. Leahy (D-VT):
“The public’s right to know is a cornerstone of our democracy. By using technology, a site such as (ThisWeKnow.org) can provide citizens with access to data that is relevant to them and that can enable and encourage them to make informed decisions. This site is designed to make what was once a difficult and time-consuming process into a faster and more streamlined experience….
We congratulate them for all of their hard work and their public spirit, and encourage them to continue their efforts to promote a more accessible and open government.”
Wow! Thanks so much, Senator!
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Ben, Michael & Derrish (of Intellidimension) from today’s Reformer article. And no, contrary to popular belief, blue shirts with horizontal stripes are not our uniform around here.
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ThisWeKnow.org was featured in a front-page articles in today’s Reformer. If you haven’t yet voted for the site, please consider doing so. Click here to Vote.
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We made the cut! Our site, ThisWeKnow.org was selected as one of three finalists in the Apps For America 2 contest. We are very excited and honored. The next phase of the competition is voted on by the online community. So please cast your vote.
Michael and I will be traveling to DC to present ThisWeKnow.org at the Gov 2.0 Expo on September 8th. This is also where the winner will be announced.
Be sure to check out the other <a href=”http://www.sunlightlabs.com/contests/appsforamerica2/apps/”>46 application</a>. A lot of great work was done because of this contest.
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We entered sunlight lab’s Apps for America 2: The Data.gov Challenge competition last Friday with our Semantic Web application This We Know The competition is to build an application which helps promote government transparency and empowers our citizens. We’ve been getting some great feedback on the app on Twitter, and have been really enjoying working on it.
RDF databases used for storing Semantic Web data are a great technology for integreating disparate databasesand making inferences across them. We built the Ruby on Rails software, and another Brattleboro based company, Intellidimension, focused on loading their RDF database. Ellis at Sway Design designed the screens.
Take a look and let us know your suggestions for further development.
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After work on Friday Aaron, Maya, Michael & I took advantage of the unusually swelled West River for some fairly radical (at least for us overly sedate tech workers) whitewater canoeing. Aaron & Maya (shown above) piloted an old junker we convinced the canoe rental place to let us take, while Michael & I put his extra wide fishing canoe through its paces. Two hours, ten miles, two near-flips, countless scratches, and one head-on collision with a unfortunately placed boulder later we made it all the way down to the Connecticut River.
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We’ve completed two applications this May. Ben Tucker, our Director of Technology, headed up a small team building The Portfolio Place, a project of the National Center at Northeastern University. This application builds video samples and resumes about professional sign language interpreters. Aaron Michal, the Software Architect here at GreenRIver.org, headed up the team programming a redesigned version of Sitebuilder. Sitebuilder is a tool the Authors Guild developed for authors. It allows authors to build and update their websites.
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