Open States

We announced earlier this week that Open States is now being maintained by the original creators of the project, a community of Sunlight Foundation alumni and other volunteers.

We’re excited to announce that Open States has been accepted as a participating organization in Google Summer of Code 2018!

Last year we had Hitesh Garg help us break ground on a brand new data admin tool. We’re excited to have the…

The current Open States website has served us well. It’s a crucial gateway for citizens to track, search, and learn about their representatives and bills, and receives hundreds of thousands of hits per month when legislatures are in session.

We had 15 developers spend a whole day at work on Billy-to-Pupa conversion. With 13 new PRs from that…

Open States progress report, March 2

Hi again! Checking in with another progress update, as I begin my third and final month staffed…

I am Hitesh Garg, one of the two Google Summer of Code (GSoC) students working with Open States this summer. I’ll be helping to transition the project…