https://groups.google.com/d/topic/fifty-state-project/6lrqRE_8qIY/discussion
On public meeting notices, these resources may be of use:
http://publicmeetings.info
http://www.openpublicmeetings.info/recommendations.html
Our Public Meetings online working group has 117 members to connect with:
http://forums.e-democracy.org/groups/publicmeetings
Also, in terms of information on officials or even an open data set of
the official URLs of all local government jurisdictions, I am curious
what mySociety is planning with their services (and Sunlight) noting
their Google.org announcements.
Our DemocracyMap online working group has 96 members interested in the
"who represents me" slice:
http://forums.e-democracy.org/groups/democracymap
Also see: http://democracymap.org
I am always interested in connecting these ideas to efforts with
sustained resources. When it comes to creating new open data
collections across multiple local governments related to _democracy_
and _power_ there is a huge market failure. Stuff like fire hydrants
are far easier, but if we can about impact we need the public to have
timely access (and notification) of information about upcoming
government decisions or actions that matter to them (by location,
interest, cost, etc.).
Cheers,
Steve