Looking for contractors for upcoming Transparency project

[Nick Grossman]

Hey All--

Nick Grossman here from OpenPlans.  We're an NYC-based nonprofit building technology to help cities & governments work better.

We have a potential upcoming project, doing a fairly high profile government-sponsored open data / transparency website (or websites).  The scope of the project may fall outside of what we can do with our full-time staff, so I am looking for folks who would be interested in working on the project on a contractor basis.  The details & scope are not yet finalized, but we would be looking for people who have experience & interest in the following areas:

 * Implementing data repositories & APIs (ideally using open source tools, some of which are listed here: http://wiki.openmuni.org/Data_Platform)

 * Designing and building civic data mashup sites, along the lines of http://govtrack.us and http://maplight.org 

 * Platform TBD, but most likely Django or Rails for the custom-designed application (not necessarily the data repo)

In terms of skills, we will most likely be looking to bring on 1-2 developers, 1-2 designers, and possibly 1 PM-type person (again, depending on how the scope shapes up).  We would be particularly interested in working with small teams who have already worked together.  The project would be on a short timeline (roughly six weeks for build & deploy, starting in early August), so the ability to focus significant effort during that time will be important.

If this sounds interesting to you (and apologies for being light on detail at this point), please send me an email, and include links to related websites or software projects that you've worked on (and/or your sunlightlabs / github / sortfolio / etc profile).

Many thanks!

Nick

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Nick Grossman

Director of Civic Works

OpenPlans | http://openplans.org | (917) 388-9040 | @nickgrossman