[IP] uber-archivist (and IP'er) Carl Malamud to update another government agency's services - as its head?

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Ethan Ackerman <eackerma@u.washington.edu>
Date: March 3, 2009 10:21:46 AM EST
To: David Farber <dave@farber.net>
Subject: uber-archivist (and IP'er) Carl Malamud to update another  
government  agency's services - as its head?
Reply-To: eackerma@u.washington.edu

Greetings Dave,

IP'ers might be interested to know that Public.Resource.Org archivist
and IP contributor Carl Malamud is the target of a concerted effort by
the "yes we scan" committee to be named as 'public printer of the US'
- the head of the Government Printing Office.

Co-chaired by Paul Vixie, Lawrence Lessig, and David Halperin, the
committee ( at http://yeswescan.org/ ) has launched an online
signature-gathering effort in hopes that Carl would be considered for
the position.  Carl's transparency and public records dissemination
work is long-running and quite revolutionary.  It's probably fitting
that the committee is collecting signatures and endorsement online
too, including thorugh "signature bundlers" - like BoingBoing:
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/02/25/yes-we-scan-carl-mal.html




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