I am also not directly associated with this position, but I work on projects with the House of Representative and can vouch for the Clerk's office as a very cool place to work, especially if you're interested in applying technology to law.
This is very cool-- send text messages easily without ever leaving your laptop or having to deal with the phone's keys. For anyone over 30, texting from a real keyboard makes a lot of sense.
For anyone interested in this idea, check out legalhacks.org and join us for a hackathon at UC Hastings on May 19, to mark up legislation and discuss metadata standards for legislation. internationallegislation.eventbrite.com
Having legislative markup is necessary for any git-like system, because of the complex ways that amendments are currently made.
We'll be joined at the hackathon by Grant Vergottini, a member of the LegalXML OASIS committee, and the person who built the legislative editor that California uses.
As many people here have commented, adoption by legislatures of
I add to what everyone has said here and elsewhere: terrific work. I would love to discuss with you guys adding a commenting component to meaningfully organize public comments, particularly on proposed rules.
I am a lawyer with a tech background and had ~10 years of experience with (comments on) Federal Rulemaking at the Natural Resources Defense Council. State of the art is still often hundreds of printouts of electronically submitted comments.
This is an absolutely fascinating thread-- thanks to Rachel Zahorsky for the original article, and to sunchild and other commenters for thoughts and inspiration. Am very interested in contacting others on this list with an interest in both law and code.
