Re: Contributing to the blend
Hi Enric,
[sorry for the late reply - I was on vacation]
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 08:52:39AM +0200, Enric Garcia Torrents wrote:
> 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.
I think Barbara has summarised things quite good.
I can confirm that I personally consider Debian Lex stalled / sleeping
very deeply and I would be very happy to provide any technical help
regarding Blends if you try to wake it up again. Since you told you are
a newcomer I would like to say in advance: Try to be bold and change
things in the way *you* will consider it to be correct. As long as
there is no resistance you are probably on the right track. Debian is a
Do-O-cracy and the does decides. IMHO the fact that Debian Lex is in
the state as it is now is just because nobody really did something and
thus no decisions were drawn.
It might make sense if you might watch my talks I have given at
DebConf13 about Blends (see my (longish) report[1]) to get some clue
about the Blends idea. It is mainly supporting technical means for the
only goal to attract more people around a topic inside Debian. So
forming a strong team is the main focus - but you need to do something
first to impress people with your work to see that it is good.
Good luck
Andreas.
[1] http://debianmed.blogspot.de/2013/09/debconf-13-report-by-andreas-tille.html
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