Outtake: For this week's awesome stuff, we're going to highlight two projects that seek to bring out into the open things that are being held in secret for no good reason at all.
- Public Safety Codes of the World. We've written many times about Carl Malamud and his work with Public.Resource.org to buy up various "standards" that have been incorporated into US laws, and then making them freely available to the public, under the belief that the law should never be locked up and subject to copyright protections. Tragically, many standards are written by industry bodies, who then try to support themselves by selling (at exorbitant prices) copies of the details of those standards. But when politicians then write those standards into the law, it seems quite reasonable that the details of the standards really should be free. This is expensive work, since it involves buying up lots of standards and (all too frequently) fending off legal attacks. Given that, Malamud is seeking at least $100,000 to continue Public.Resource's work. The key goal behind this particular effort is to take many of the standards they've already scanned and turn them into HTML...
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