In our campaign, we do as much as we can with whatever we are afforded, and then give all the code away for Free regardless. Affording sponsorship to developers, and opening those kind of positive feedback loops, is a vision too few share.

From one campaign built upon code and coders to another, I would like to apply not for your fellowship, but for Rochester to be included in your list of available cities. We want to run this campaign --or one very much like it--at Rochester Institute of Technology, in the City of Rochester, New York, using our CIVX campaign and platform to demonstrate how the tools we've helped build can close tickets and open datasets.

We'll be participating in the CapitolCamp Developer Day on August 19th, helping others utilize and widgetize the NYS Seante's open data and API's. We will then present the fruits of the Hackfests' (as well as our Summer Semester's) labor at the CapitolCamp Unconference next week, August 20th.

Please regard our sentiments as genuine. This campaign is not just a "good idea," but a living breathing open source project. We are not contacting you because we need help getting started, but because we've already covered much ground. Our initial research grant has been expended, and we are about to show people the result of academics, government staffers, journalists, and developers, sitting at one table together, with a little bit of grant money, a little bit of time, and a little bit of code.

Imagine what could be done with a lot more code,

--RemyD.