{"id":641336,"date":"2013-02-05T10:58:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T15:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=ce6d1e48898cdf6e17fcc6c506cfb421"},"modified":"2013-02-05T10:58:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T15:58:34","slug":"announcing-we-the-people-2-0-and-a-white-house-hackathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/641336","title":{"rendered":"Announcing We the People 2.0 and a White House Hackathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since we launched <a href=\"http:\/\/petitions.whitehouse.gov\/\">We the People<\/a>, our team of developers has been hard at work on the code that makes the whole thing tick. Good thing, too! More than 2 million users joined We the People in the last two months of 2012 alone and some 6 million of you have logged in to the system and left more than 10 million signatures. That&#39;s a lot of citizen engagement for one application to handle, but it&#39;s done well, and we continue to release updates to the source code on&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.github.com\/whitehouse\">GitHub<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/drupal.org\/user\/2356044\">Drupal.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, though, we&#39;re starting the next stage of We the People&#39;s development. I&#39;m pleased to announce that Petitions 1.0, the code that We the People runs on, is complete. We&#39;re now working towards Petitions 2.0.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In software development, when you go from one version number to another it means that something big is going on. We&#39;re taking a new approach to how the application works, one that starts with the assumption that it should be as open, transparent, and flexible as possible.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/02\/05\/announcing-we-people-20-and-white-house-hackathon\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since we launched We the People, our team of developers has been hard at work on the code that makes the whole thing tick. Good thing, too! More than 2 million users joined We the People in the last two months of 2012 alone and some 6 million of you have logged in to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}