I was kind of disappointed after the first paragraph, when I realized this wasn't talking about the kind of hacker I thought, as in Hacker News. If it were, it

I was kind of disappointed after the first paragraph, when I realized this wasn't talking about the kind of hacker I thought, as in Hacker News. If it were, it surely would have mentioned some awesome projects like: Hack Tyler http://hacktyler.com/ http://hacktyler.com/ Civic Commons http://civiccommons.org/ http://civiccommons.org/ Code for America http://codeforamerica.org/ http://codeforamerica.org/ and Open Plans http://openplans.org/ http://openplans.org/