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The lead Senators, Maria Cantwell and Ted Cruz, probably didn’t realize what had happened, as they did seek to do something useful for consumers, and the FAA re

The lead Senators, Maria Cantwell and Ted Cruz, probably didn’t realize what had happened, as they did seek to do something useful for consumers, and the FAA reauthorization bill is sprawling and it’s easy to lose track of the details of every provision. Sure, a completely honest mistake. No way our caring politicians would have let that language be inserted into the law. I would love if these documents were version controlled so we could see exactly whose office inserted the language. Which makes so much sense, I doubt it will ever happen.

jauntywundrkind 2y ago
> I would love if these documents were version controlled 2013 was a fun year in DC, on this topic Tom MacWright was scraping the DC Code from some vendor, Joshua Tauberer pitched in to help remove the WestLaw redistributor's IP that they were attaching everywhere... Tom started posting copies of the DC Code to github, updating as it changed. One of Tom's key posts: https://macwright.com/2013/04/04/the-open-code.html https://macwright.com/2013/04/04/the-open-code.html Local coverage: https://ggwash.org/view/30874/a-copy-of-dcs-laws-is-now-free-and-open https://ggwash.org/view/30874/a-copy-of-dcs-laws-is-now-free... . Eventually this kind of shook out into the Open Law Library https://openlawlib.org/ https://openlawlib.org/ . Which is used to maintain & update the DC Code on Github, https://github.com/DCCouncil/law-html https://github.com/DCCouncil/law-html . I wish I had a little better idea of how things evolved in the intervening decade. I don't know much about Open Law Library, to be honest, or who else these efforts are helping now. But these incipient years were great years here in town. The meetup scene was excellent in general, and Tom showing up & going through blockbuster hits like these efforts was just a mind-blowingly break-out-the-champagne joy-inspiration supreme.
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jauntywundrkind 2y ago

> I would love if these documents were version controlled 2013 was a fun year in DC, on this topic Tom MacWright was scraping the DC Code from some vendor, Joshua Tauberer pitched in to help remove the WestLaw redistributor's IP that they were attaching everywhere... Tom started posting copies of the DC Code to github, updating as it changed. One of Tom's key posts: https://macwright.com/2013/04/04/the-open-code.html https://macwright.com/2013/04/04/the-open-code.html Local coverage: https://ggwash.org/view/30874/a-copy-of-dcs-laws-is-now-free-and-open https://ggwash.org/view/30874/a-copy-of-dcs-laws-is-now-free... . Eventually this kind of shook out into the Open Law Library https://openlawlib.org/ https://openlawlib.org/ . Which is used to maintain & update the DC Code on Github, https://github.com/DCCouncil/law-html https://github.com/DCCouncil/law-html . I wish I had a little better idea of how things evolved in the intervening decade. I don't know much about Open Law Library, to be honest, or who else these efforts are helping now. But these incipient years were great years here in town. The meetup scene was excellent in general, and Tom showing up & going through blockbuster hits like these efforts was just a mind-blowingly break-out-the-champagne joy-inspiration supreme.

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