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? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/podcast-episode-open-source-beats-auth...
there was a meetup for IT in government for a while that seemed like it might include something in that direction but it was some time ago and I honestly think it was a helpdesk staff support group
On Mon, Mar 4, 2024 at 3:23 PM Chris Bier chris.bier@cymor.com wrote:
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?
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/podcast-episode-open-source-beats-auth... _______________________________________________ KCLUG mailing list KCLUG@kclug.org http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug
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.
On Mon, Mar 4, 2024 at 3:23 PM Chris Bier chris.bier@cymor.com wrote:
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?
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/podcast-episode-open-source-beats-auth... _______________________________________________ KCLUG mailing list KCLUG@kclug.org http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug
Some of them do that already, sort of. Which suggests two projects:
- survey of deliberative bodies and the availability of their process artifacts (and what said artifacts are) - standardization
simply mandating "check it into git!" doesn't help a whole lot without standardization which facilitates crafting of general tools.
On Tue, Mar 5, 2024 at 11:31 AM Monty J. Harder mjharder@gmail.com wrote:
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.
On Mon, Mar 4, 2024 at 3:23 PM Chris Bier chris.bier@cymor.com wrote:
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?
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