Hi DC people!

Jim Harper of the Cato Institute is developing an XML markup schema for bills as they go through Congress, something that will support reuse by any number of web services. He specifically wants to be sure it is designed in a way that supports Wikipedia and Wikipedians in producing high quality coverage of current federal legislation.

He will be hosting two days of events at the Cato Institute in support of this: * Thursday, March 14 afternoon, Intro to Wikipedia and edit-a-thon (open invitation) * Thursday evening reception (open invitation) * Friday March 15 all day workshop to brainstorm ideas (short application required)

If you're interested in/knowledgeable about Wikipedia's editorial process, its technology (e.g. bots, template, navigation boxes), and/or government transparency, we want you to be there!

Please see this blog post for some more details: http://www.cato.org/events/wikipedia-legislative-data-workshop

Applications for the Friday session are due next week.

Hope to see you there! -Pete

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