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Re:Lord of the Files: How GitHub Tamed Free Software (And More) by jcurbo on Tuesday February 21, 2012 @03:25PM (#3617937)
What I find fascinating is "a technologist with the New York State Senate" - what does this guy do? Advise state senators on tech matters?
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Re:Lord of the Files: How GitHub Tamed Free Software (And More) by Duff on Tuesday February 21, 2012 @04:06PM (#3618096)
They have a small IT department that has developed some pretty interesting tools, most of which are open-source. They had a very progressive CIO who had APIs created to access legislative data, etc.

Really useful stuff if you need to know what the legislature is up to.

http://www.nysenate.gov/open

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