How will the 2010 elections have an impact on open government initiatives?

That’s what’s being discussed at this New York City meetup tonight, with a focus on New York State.

http://www.meetup.com/openny/calendar/15046216/

The speakers list includes:

Brandon Kessler, Founder of ChallengePost, the platform that runs BigApps, Challenge.gov and World Bank’s Apps for Development

Andrew Hoppin, NY Senate Chief Information Officer

and others.

The hashtag will be: #OpenNY

Anyone else going? Let me know at @govnerdgrrl.

More later.