Re: Contributing to the blend
Hi!
I'm currently having some issues with my mail server, so I can't now
devote myself to a detailed answer, but I would like to give a quick
response regarding the most pressing issues, as I view them.
In my view the project has stalled in front of the huge task of getting a
common ground for the specialized apps. It is in a way like
internationalization, but is further hindered by the differences in
approach by the different legal systems within the same linguistic
communities, wich have strongly regionalized procedimental and accounting
requirements, which in turn strongly diminishes the potential user base.
We have not been able yet to devote ourselves to a comparative study that
would enable us to get to that common ground.
I feel that your experience on semantic networks might be very helpful, so
please feel free to share what you think regarding the above described
issues; although somewhat inactive on the project at present, I feel it is
a great one that deserves to see its completion.
Best regards to all
BarbaraF.
(Bariloche / Río Negro / Argentina)
> Hi, I am interested in contributing to the Debian-Lex pure blend. I have
> cheked the mailing list and wiki pages, and noticed that the blend has
> been quite inactive for a long time, what's the project status? Is there
> any active team involved in it? If so, which are the most pressing issues
> that need to be sorted out? I am available and willing to get hands on,
> any recommendation on where to start will be welcome. At this point let me
> introduce myself, I am current working as developer for a web application
> at CodeX (Stanford Department of Legal Information) devoted to arbitration
> and international law, and have been a contractor for the Stanford School
> of Law for quite a long time, developing social and semantic networks
> applied to law research (building up a knowledge base, natural language
> processing tools, inter alia). I am also working on an open source machine
> translation engine English-Chinese specialized in the legal domain based
> in Moses, in collaboration with the Stanford China Guiding Cases Project.
> I am user of Kali, a Debian penetration testing fork by Offensive
> Security, but see the importance that it would have for the sector -in
> academia, commerical practice and public sector- to build up a strong,
> free legal distribution. I just registered to Alioth, I am new to the
> Debian community, please let me know how to proceed further.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Enric G. Torrents
>
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