FCC wants to bring web developers and agencies together

On April 16, the Federal Communications Commission will host a ".Gov Developer Meet-Up" that organizers hope will encourage web developers and agencies needing web apps to interact.

The amount of raw data produced by government agencies and made available to the public has increased markedly since the Obama administration Office of management and Budget's promulgation of the Open Government Directive. While "data" once meant spreadsheets and documents, it now includes large sets of raw numbers and information that can be organized, reorganized, displayed, mixed and mashed up in custom applications. Federal agencies increasingly make data available through application programming interfaces (APIs) and web services, the former numbering more than 25. But there is still no comprehensive forum for potential developers to see the full scope of available resources. The ".Gov Developer Meet-Ups" aim to fill that void.