Hello all, In late 2011 I tried to re-launch the debian-lex by contacting the founder and talking about several issues. He told me, that he no longer works as lawyer and looks for a new coordinator and reinforced me to apply for that job. Later we found out, that there was started a debian-lex wiki project without his knowing and there might be persons in this debian-lex wiki, who have plans to coordinate the whole project too. This stopped me for a while, because I dident´t knew whom to contact, as I have lack of permission ( I have no debian developer status so far and need to be pushed!).
To my person: I am a German lawyer and since 1998 programmer of open source software with so many projects that I can not list them up easily (C++, PHP and so on) I programmed the first German law related search engine in 1999/2000. My last project is a very fast&simple GeoIP-switching script, which will be published under GPL in a few weeks and makes it possible to make content compliant to the law of the user country. This might be a freedom step backwards, but It´s also a technical way to respect local governments. I could coordinate the debian-lex project, but if I do, I don't want too many parallel projects because it´s much work to do and we should split the work logically and then try to reach some more goals over a long period. There are two timelines, the first is to catch all law related FLOSS and put it into a debian flavour, here I need some help. This should also be documented in the distributiuon and on the website. The second is, to make pre-work of more accurate interfaces with an expandable meta-data system for law related data fragments. This will put us in position to let the programs communicate with each other and is required for free and usefull programming of individuals. If we have success with these goals, it will be necessary to build up local/national sections of the debian lex project, as there are too many national differences and we will not be able to make a one-fits-all legal suite which is practical in all legal systems. This might be possible for some software but not for a whole software suite bundled with debian lex. In addition there are many differences in lawyer's data protection law, so that we need international and national conventions to make debian lex possible as a real choice for lawyers. If there should be another coordinator, I would at least like to participate in a subproject wich considers meta data conventions. I see a great need of a debian-lex project. Greetings from Germany Michael Guck Am 25.05.2012 05:02, schrieb nweissma: > if you need a paralegal in new york city, then I am willing to contribute. > > > > /s/ Neal Weissman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
