It’s Sunshine Week—

Sunshine Week is a national initiative to open a dialogue about the importance of open government and freedom of information. Participants include print, broadcast and online news media, civic groups, libraries, non-profits, schools and others interested in the public’s right to know.

I’d like to highlight (and hope to attend) two Sunshine-related events:  On 3/19 is Government Secrecy: Censoring Your Right to Know. Most relevent to the Tech Events reader is the second part of that event:

We will be visiting and talking with creators of websites that help the public avoid having to file official requests or go to offices and meetings to learn what our government is doing: Bill Allison (Sunlight Foundation), Sheila Krumholz (Center for Responsive Politics/OpenSecrets.org), David Moore (OpenCongress.org), Sean Moulton (FedSpending.org), and Daniel X. O’Neil (EveryBlock); Greg Elin of Sunlight Labs will moderate. These sites make hard-to-find government information — federal, state and local — easy for the public to find and use and may inspire you to do likewise. A quick report will be given, as well, on an initiative to develop a 21st Century Right-to-Know agenda and recommendations for the next President and Congress.

The next day, Larry Lessig will be at the press club talking about the "beta" version of his Change Congress project.

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Here’s this weeks calendar— more information on the events is available at dctechevents.com. Featured jobs from JobMatchBox follow. The Social Matchbox craziness returns March 31st.

Here are this week’s featured jobs:
Ruby on Rails Developer, Searchles, Washington, DC
Senior Web Developer, Siteworx, Reston, VA
Web Designer, Intridea, Inc., Washington, DC
Ruby on Rails Developer, OpNet, Bethesda, MD
Web Content Specialist, U.S. Green Building Council, Washington, DC
Ruby on Rails Architect, Voxant, Reston, VA
Internet Project Manager, emPivot.com, Washington, DC
User Interface Ninja, WhyGoSolo, Springfield, VA (telecommute)
Web Developer, Rosetta Stone, Arlington, VA
Web User Interface Developer, Razoo, Washington, DC
Web Developer, Positive Energy USA, Rosslyn, VA
Freelance Graphic Designer, Positive Energy USA, Rosslyn, VA
Design Director, Viget Labs, Falls Church, VA