<div dir="ltr">Some of them do that already, sort of. Which suggests two projects:<div><ul><li>survey of deliberative bodies and the availability of their process artifacts (and what said artifacts are)</li><li>standardization</li></ul><div>simply mandating "check it into git!" doesn't help a whole lot without standardization which facilitates crafting of general tools.</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 5, 2024 at 11:31 AM Monty J. Harder <<a href="mailto:mjharder@gmail.com">mjharder@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">The first thing we can get behind is having all deliberative bodies (Congress, state legislatures, city councils, school boards) put all of their work into Git repositories to which the general public has read-only access. Every time a bill is amended should be a commit.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 4, 2024 at 3:23 PM Chris Bier <<a href="mailto:chris.bier@cymor.com" target="_blank">chris.bier@cymor.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><u></u><div><div><br></div><div>I was listening to this EFF podcast about using technology to help democracy be more open and wondering if there were any projects in MO and KS. Does anyone know of any?<br></div><div><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/podcast-episode-open-source-beats-authoritarianism" target="_blank">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/podcast-episode-open-source-beats-authoritarianism</a><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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