We’ve had so much positive feedback on the release of our open source legislative lookup application that I’d like to announce a few more projects that we’ve open sourced this week:

• Mobile Giving Client for Ruby: Mobile Commons software enables non-profits to collect charitable donations over SMS. We partner with an organization called the Mobile Giving Foundation to handle the billing and carrier relations. They provide and API to their service and we’ve written a Ruby library to use with it.
• Google Annotated Timeline for Rails: Google’s Visualization API provides a really slick Flash-based line graph that we’ve started using in our application. We wrote a Rails plugin that makes including these timelines in your web applications very easy. Look for more use of these interactive graphs in upcoming Mobile Commons releases.
• Active Record Export to CSV This is a little extension that makes it really easy to export data to CSV from a Rails project. Every time you export your data from our application, you’re using this handy extension.

While this blog post was a little on the geeky side, all this code plays an important role in making the Mobile Commons applications run. With these open-source releases, we hope others in the developer community can benefit too!

You can find all our API documentation and open-source code on our Developer site at http://mcommons.com/developers.