Civic Commons is many people coming together around a single mission: to help the thousands of government entities share technology for the public good. Here are some ways you can get involved:
Use the Civic Commons Marketplace
Imagine a permanent inter-city water cooler conversation, with an attached database. Join the discussion in the Civic Commons Marketplace about "what works, where": add notes and updates about deployments of civic technology, and learn what others are doing. The civic tech hive mind should never have to learn anything twice; in the Marketplace, you can help the community ensure that what's known somewhere is known everywhere.
Help build the Civic Commons Knowledge Base
The Civic Commons Wiki is an active and widely-cited resource on topics related to open government technology, including open source policies, open data policies, legal and procurement guidelines, and much more.
Use the discussion groups
The Civic Commons discussion forum — if your question or thought has to do with sharing civic technology, then it's on topic. You don't have to be a member of the group to post, but we encourage you to join. It's a public mailing list, so feel free to read the archives, or ask a question by emailing discuss@civiccommons.org or posting via the web.
In addition to our main discussion group, we sometimes provide a jurisdiction-neutral, vendor-neutral place (temporary or permanent) for other civic tech communities to host topic-specific discussions. We're happy to create one for your community, and give the right people admininstrative access; just let us know.
Join the conversation online
The Civic Commons blog is where we highlight particularly interesting successes — and, when useful, failures — in civic tech. Check it out, and add its RSS feed to your reader if you'd like.
Follow @CivComs on twitter for updates.
We also read a lot, and tag interesting articles using the civcoms tag on Delicious. If you're a Delicious user, please join us in collecting more articles about open civic technologies.
Check out the latest activity page to see what we're been reading & writing.