Never thought of that, honestly - I'll look into it.

I've had surprising amount of folk ask in seriousness why I'm trying to take money away from the budget starved city, though.. That mindset might push back. Still worth a shot! ;)

Mind if I ask what city? Some cities and states have grant programs for exactly this kind of thing.

Nice! I'm doing this out of Chicago, IL.

This would be a good place to start:

http://digital.cityofchicago.org/index.php/developer-resourc...

They're the ones who inspired me to start these projects and seek funding, actually. Half of that inspiration comes from a huge amount of annoyance in the ineffectiveness of most of their work, though. It's all very feel-good in the same spirit as building useless schools in Brown Country is. That's not to say all of their work is bad.

For example, their speaker this week was an "Opposition Contractor" whose whole dig was that he sells himself out to the highest bidder to use data in ensuring the other candidate doesn't get elected - no matter the party affiliation. All discussed in the frame of "civics".

Pardon the cynicism. :)

Thanks for the help and motivation to get me searching again, though! Hopefully there's something out there..