I wanted to post a quick follow-up on the Open House Project report which was released yesterday in the US Capitol by a broad bipartisan group of citizens and Members of Congress (including GOP Leader John Boehner).

You can watch the full press conference via YouTube.

The Hill newspaper has good print coverage of the event:

A bipartisan coalition of nonprofits, watchdogs and bloggers are calling on the House to go Web 2.0.

The Open House Project, led by the Sunlight Foundation, one of Washington's newest transparency advocates, released a report yesterday to push Congress to update its antiquated use of the Internet and open its doors a little wider to the public.

"Our goal has not been to radically rework House rules," Ellen Miller, Sunlight’s executive director, said. Instead, the project hopes to expand disclosure and transparency on Capitol Hill where it is workable with the rules in place.

Described by Miller as a “collaborative process” with dozens of groups and individuals involved, the report lays out 10 recommendations that would drastically update Congress’s use of the Internet and the manner in which it stores and presents its legislative work. Keep reading...

Here's the video I made with Phil de Vellis (a.k.a. ParkRidge47 who made the Barack Obama 1984 ad):

I also made a quick vlog with Matt Stoller of MyDD.com and Robert Bluey of techRepublican and the Heritage Foundation:

So what do YOU think about the Open House Project? Do you support it? How can we take action?