Daniel Bush wrote:
2009/5/19 Matthew Landauer <[email protected]>
For those that were at my SLUG talk a few weeks ago, here's the
official announcement of OpenAustralia's first hackfest which will be
on Saturday 13th June, kindly hosted by Google at their Sydney
offices:
http://anyvite.com/5qitmm44gl
There are a limited number of places and a big chunk of them have gone
already so to be assured a place sign sooner rather than later at the
link above!
For those that weren't at the talk, http://www.openaustralia.org/ aims
to bring the goings on at the Australian parliament a little closer to
home for most people. The hackfest is an opportunity for a bunch of
hackers to get together for the day, build some cool stuff, help
democracy, and share some knowledge and generally have fun.
In the past I've sometimes thought it would be good to put legislation under
version control. Maybe mercurial or bazaar or even git :)
Than you could tag releases that get passed; run diffs between older
versions; new acts that amend existing acts would hold these changes as diff
patches.
It'd be crazy awesome. :)
Already done...
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAWS AMENDMENT ACT 1998 No. 100, 1998 - LONG TITLE
An Act to amend the Copyright Act 1968, the Designs Act 1906, the Patents Act
1990 and the Trade Marks Act 1995, and for other purposes
<http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/num_act/iplaa1998399/longtitle.html>
By the way, the Aust Parliament House website is currently under review more
here:
<http://www.katelundy.com.au/2009/05/06/redesign-of-the-aph-website-you-thoughts/>
Marghanita
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