Legal Software: Storify: Twitter chat on open legislative data, 19 September 2014

A storify is available of a Twitter chat on the topic, “how to open your state and local legislature with open-source software, open data, and the help of the Free Law Founders,” held 19 September 2014 .

The chat was organized by Free Law Founders as part of Global Legislative Openness Week 2014.

The Twitter hashtags for the chat were #OpenParl2014 and #FreeLaw

Click here for a storify of the chat.

Click here for a description of the chat.

Here is a description of the event, from the announcement:

[...] As part of Global Legislative Openness Week 2014, members of the Free Law Founders (FLF) will host a Tweet Chat [on 19 September 2014] from 9-10 AM EST [...], taking your questions on how to open your state and local legislature with open-source software, open data and the help of the FLF. To participate, simply tag your tweet with #OpenParl2014 and #FreeLaw.

Topics could range from how to deliver an open data policy for your local legislature to strategies for building an open legislature movement where you live…but everything “open government” is on the table. Join the conversation tomorrow on Twitter!

What: Tweet Chat on How to Open Your State & Local Legislature

When: Friday, September 19 from 9-10 AM EST

Participants (Tentative):

NYC Council Member Ben Kallos (@BenKallos)

San Francisco Supervisor Mark Farrell (@MarkFarrellSF)

DC Council Member Tommy Wells (@TommyWellsDC)

DC Council Member David Grosso (@Team_Grosso)

Chicago City Clerk Susana Mendoza (@ChiCityClerk)

The Sunlight Foundation (@SunFoundation)

DC Council Chief Counsel David Zvenyach (@vdavez)

The OpenGov Foundation (@FoundOpenGov)

MIT Human Dynamics Lab’s Dazza Greenwood (@LegalScience)

OpenGov Foundation Exec. Director Seamus Kraft (@SeamusKraft)

OpenGov Developer Bill Hunt (@Krues8dr)

Participatory Politics Foundation Founder David Moore (@PPolitics)

Boston’s Principal Data Scientist Curt Savoie (@CurtSavoie)

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