As you may have noticed, Debian-Lex, the nascent Debian-for-lawyers sub-project, made DWN today, and I've had some expressions of interest off-list from that. We're still not officially launched yet though, until the list people create a list for us, so debian-devel will remain the point of contact until then. I'm also cc'ing debian-users on this mail because I am sure there are some non-developer lawyers who will be interested in getting involved, and I'm bcc'ing about a dozen upstream maintainers of packages that are proposed for inclusion in the project, but who might not want their addresses on Usenet. For these and others who came in late, our URL is http://people.debian.org/~terminus/debian-lex (until we are official and the Web people give us some proper space). So for starters we're mainly interested in what DFSG free packages are out there for lawyers, courts or legal administrators, that I don't already know about, that we can look at packaging into Debian-Lex. The current list (including, however, a number of vaporware packages) is found on the Web site. It also includes a few non legal-specific packages, but this needs to be fleshed out. Of the packages that are not vaporware and not already in Debian, I intend to package some of them myself, and I'm cc'ing the maintainers who have ITP'd GnoTime and SQL-Ledger to see if they have any news on their progress. One thing I am not confident at is PHP, so it would be good to have someone on board who can evaluate the PHP-based packages for possible inclusion and to package them if they come up to scratch. We are also interested in hearing about forms, templates, schemata, and documentation in use by lawyers with free software that can be packaged to support the main packages, and I already have a bundle of OpenOffice.org templates for the Family Law courts in Australia to start us off in this regard, and a set of SQL-Ledger accounts (including scripts to import time data from GnoTime). There are many other things to get going on but these are for starters. Also, we need to start the ball rolling in order to convince the powers that be to make us official. :-) Volunteers to help? -- JEREMY MALCOLM <Jeremy@Malcolm.id.au> Personal: http://www.malcolm.id.au Providing online networks of Australian lawyers (http://www.ilaw.com.au) and Linux experts (http://www.linuxconsultants.com.au) for instant help! Disclaimer: http://www.terminus.net.au/disclaimer.html. GPG key: finger.
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