 Hi, I'm Stefan and I'm working for the Open Knowledge Foundation in Germany. We're doing open data and open government projects and I'm going to talk about laws and get I mean It's a current trend a bit if you follow it Clay Scherke had a tour gave a talk about it last year and I'm going to show the Situation in German now, so this is a website called a gazette's internet, which means laws on the internet in case you forget Where you are? It's on the internet, so it's right in the name Perfect and what I did is I'm I'm currently in regular intervals get all the laws from there Put them in a repository convert the XML you get into Markdown and you end up with something that we call here bundeskitt, which is a federal kid basically and bundeskitt is a German parliament in case you don't know and it's the upper part is The parliament logo and here you have also the laws in there. It basically looks like that alone so this is our copyright law in German and it's nicely rendered as markdown on Gita, which is really fantastic and so the raw version basically looks like that and So it's nicely structured More or less I mean there are a couple of mistakes because the XML is really really bad to get from from the original site and Up here you can as you notice. What is that? That's a yaml front matter and so what this actually also gives you is that you can render the laws immediately via github and now you have a nice exactly basically the same site as the original one just in a bit nicer and Basically I have all laws here, which is also quite handy and but there's of course much more to do Here's for example This is the blame view for a law so you can see basically which commit fucked something up or you know made something better Unfortunately, I don't have all the changes to a law I just started collecting changes since last summer and I'm trying to basically Correlate changes to the law To actual commits and it's very difficult and it's because there are many many law changes over the year and To actually correlate a publication of a law change to something that is actually changed on the website It's it's complicated, but I'm trying to make it work and it definitely has to be get better over time And this is a history, which is also quite nice. I'm committing everything right now This is why I'm always my face, but of course I'm not taking credit for it And the best thing of course is issues and pull requests because laws, you know, they they need improving and Pull requests are perfect for that. For example This is a pirate party in Germany and they open issues to laws and actually say okay here. This needs to get better This is an issue and then they do some commits to it you can see what they think about it and what they actually want to change and Okay, they want to add a paragraph somewhere, you know, perfect Because usually laws are changed in a way that basically reads. Okay, we need to change in the third sentence the first word to not Or something right and this is this is no context and that's how they work at the moment And they definitely need some get support We also have a GitHub organization called Bundesregier, which is federal government and because also the government makes Do they make the law changes basically and so they forked the laws from the Parliament and then they change something Then they make a pull request in Parliament and for example, this is the leisung Schutzrecht, which is a very bad law but here you can see actually how it the different versions that came from the ministries and how they change over time and For example, if I click here I can see that the second to last version that they did to that law before they gave it into Parliament and This is the last one and you can see exactly how it evolved over time And of course GitHub. I mean it gets better for non a git users So lawyers and the I was recently told, you know, this is a difficult project because lawyers and git users Basically the intersection is zero. There's there's none and so I'm actually hoping To get something off the ground. I don't know if you're pro no pros. I owe which is basically a web interface for a git Repository a github repositories. You can easily edit files. For example, if I click here edit We'll load for a moment and then give me the copyright law. I mean github is getting better at that I mean you can now edit stuff on github and but to make it I want a web interface that is more focused on on law changes so to make it easier to to maybe rep paragraphs in a nicer interface and to Display this this metadata that is on top in a different way And so if you have any ideas about how laws and git should work come talk to me and real figures figure something out Thank you