UPDATE #20-AB1624: Ideas-Exchange listserv for Legis Data Programmers

[David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

July 30, 1993
> On July 22nd, I broadcast details [Update #19] about a number of sample 
> files of legislative data, in the various forms used internally by the 
> Legislative Data Center and Office of State Printing, that are available for 
> anonymous ftp, with which volunteer-programmers could begin experimenting.
>
> Just before flying off to a tele-community conference in Colorado, Al Whaley 
> of cpsr.org (one of the volunteers) proposed an online discussion group to 
> facilitate the shared programming effort - excellent idea!  I had planned on 
> broadcasting this message before now, but was first distracted by the c
> onference, then came home with a massive head code.  Blushing apologies!
>
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> SOFTWARE SUCCESSES WOULD BE HELPFUL AT AUGUST 18th HEARING
>  It would be *great* to flaunt printouts of the sample legislative data 
> along with a listing of the freeware source-code that created them at the 
> Aug. 18th Senate Rules Committee.
>
> --jim
> Jim Warren, columnist for MicroTimes, Government Technology & BoardWatch
> jwarren () well sf ca us  -or-  jwarren () autodesk com