Washington's IT Guy 65
Timothy found a profile of Carl Malamud up at The American Prospect, characterizing it thus: "Carl Malamud — underrated work shedding sunshine on the sort of things that 'sunshine laws' may make legally accessible, but that often are not practically accessible. The man should be up there on the list with Wikipedia, Wikileaks, the big Free Software projects, and the Creative Commons."
Yes the summary sucks ... (Score:5, Informative)
But there's a few of us who know who he is (by reputation ... I actually know Roberta Shaffer, also mentioned in the article, and I think I'm on a mailing list or two w/ Aaron Swartz)
But I hadn't heard anything since the election and his trying to be appointed to the head of the printing office ... it's a shame he didn't get it. He's been a big force in getting government documents from behind paywalls.
Read the article if you don't know who he is -- he's done a lot of public good.
Mirror of MVTA (Score:3, Informative)
Make you a deal sir.
You have the info but maybe not the distribution, which given your post is a tiny tragedy right? I've meanwhile spent 6 months building a mirror system (not yet coral-cached, still manual).
Slashdotters, here's a fast & dirty mirror of Garcia's data - except I WANT you to download it! If nothing else, "fight the man". But also it's a very early bandwidth test at the "25% readers are finished" comment level, which I guage as some 10 times below full RTA effect.
http://taophoenix.babblehost.com/MVTA%20Rider%20Data.html [babblehost.com]
Everyone get a copy! Makes great Father's day gifts! Hehe.
Re:Yes the summary sucks ... (Score:2, Informative)