Adopting Open States

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James Turk

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Nov 1, 2016, 11:18:27 AM11/1/16
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Hello-

As some of you may have seen, Sunlight is handing Open States over (https://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2016/11/01/sunlight-labs-update-nonprofits-step-up-to-preserve-tools-for-transparency/) to the community, including myself and other members of the old core team.

We're honored to be taking the project on and are excited to be able to continue supporting Open States.

We've detailed our initial plans in a blog post here: http://blog.openstates.org/post/adopting-open-states/

There'll be a transition period of course, and we hope you'll all bare with us as we work on updating Open States and making it run without Sunlight's support.

If you've benefitted from Open States your financial support would also be greatly appreciated and allow us to focus on site maintenance and upgrades instead of worrying about where to find the money to pay the server bills.  If you'd like to give we've set up an IndieGogo/Generosity fundraiser for these initial costs:  https://www.generosity.com/fundraisers/open-states-general-support-fund

We'll be updating on our status regularly, the next update will go into a lot more technical detail as to our plans going forward.

I've always said Open States wouldn't be what it is today without this community, I'm excited to see what we can do together in this next chapter for Open States.

-James
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