Building since 2010
Open Source Good
Sarapis advances the movement for open source abundance by building practical solutions for people doing good in New York City and beyond.
Active Projects
All projects →Databook
activeAn award-winning transparency tool that combines over 50 official NYC open datasets — agencies, people, jobs, capital projects, schools, districts and procurement — into one searchable picture of how city government works.
↗ databook.nycFull profile & activity →This update finalizes the design system strategy for Databook, establishing it as the primary source for design tokens rather than a consumer of the external package. The project's public developer documentation has been updated to clarify this relationship and document the automated parity checks that keep the systems aligned.
MutualAidNYC
activeDirectory and coordination tools for NYC mutual-aid groups.
↗ mutualaid.nycFull profile & activity →Refactored the service_at_locations feature into a Model-View-Controller architecture and added corresponding tests. Additionally, downgraded PEP 695 generics to ensure compatibility with Python 3.10.
WeGovNYC
activeA nonprofit initiative creating and coordinating civic tech projects that give New Yorkers tools for meaningful engagement with their city government.
↗ wegov.nycFull profile & activity →Updated the redirect for the UNNYC Guide to point directly to the correct ported article instead of an adjacent page, ensuring users land on the intended content.
CTFG-NYC
activeThe New York edition of the Civic Tech Field Guide — a local catalog of NYC civic-technology projects and the people building them.
Full profile & activity →Updated the website's hero section design, replacing the abstract concentric-circle background texture with realistic topographic contours.
MaintainNYC
activeCommunity-run maps and tools for keeping neighborhood infrastructure in good repair.
↗ maintain.nycFull profile & activity →Extracted five data source composites directly from the live application code. This update integrates the new composites into the main codebase to improve data handling and structure.
UNNYC
activeConnecting NYC government technology with the United Nations digital public goods ecosystem — both headquartered in New York.
↗ wegov.nyc/unnycFull profile & activity →Services
All services →About
Full story & board →Since 2010, Sarapis has helped nonprofits, community groups, and public agencies build technology they can actually own — free to run, study, share, and improve.
We're a New York-incorporated 501(c)(3) nonprofit. We believe the technology public-interest work depends on shouldn't be rented from vendors or locked inside someone else's cloud — it should belong to the people and organizations it serves. So we work in the open with free/libre/open-source tools, and everything we make goes back to the commons.
In practice that's three kinds of work: delivering complete open-source solutions, facilitating the coalitions civic technology takes to build, and stewarding the open-source platforms the public sector relies on. Our projects span open government, human services, emergency management, and the collaborative economy — in New York City and across the global open-source movement.
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