“Terms of Service; Didn't Read” (short: ToS;DR) is a young project started in June 2012 to help fix the “biggest lie on the web”: almost no one really reads the terms of service we agree to all the time.
The rough idea behind ToS;DR emerged during the 2011 Chaos Communication Camp near Berlin, with people from Unhosted a movement to create web apps that give users control over their valuable user data and privacy. In the summer of 2012, Hugo Roy started the legal analysis and brought the project to life. Since then, more people have joined the team and have contributed through the reviewer community. Ultimately, all the work is transparent and the discussions happen in public. Our work is funded by non-profits organisations and individual donations and gets released as free software and open data.
What does “ToS;DR” mean? the name is inspired by internet acronym TL;DR which stands for "Too Long; Didn't Read" and is often used on blogs and emails when a block of text is just really long and that people are too lazy to read the whole stuff. It was intended more as a code name than as a real name. But it seems that people like it (do you?)
The LGBTQ+ Bar was founded over thirty years ago by a small group of family law practitioners at the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis. In 1987, the idea of creating a gay and lesbian bar association was formally introduced at the Lesbian & Gay March on Washington. The first Lavender Law® Conference took place the following year at the Golden Gate University in San Francisco. In 1989, at the American Bar Association’s Mid-Year meeting, bylaws were presented, and a nonprofit board of directors was formalized. At the second board meeting in 1989 in Boston, the LGBTQ+ Bar, then known as the National Lesbian and Gay Law Association (NLGLA), had 293 paid members, and initiated a campaign to ask the ABA to include protection based on sexual orientation to its revision of the Model Code of Judicial Conduct for Judges. In 1992, the LGBTQ+ Bar became an official affiliate of the American Bar Association and it now works closely with the ABA’s Section on Individual Rights and Responsibilities and its Committee on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity.
The SPDX License List is an integral part of the SPDX Specification. The SPDX License List itself is a list of commonly found licenses and exceptions used in free and open or collaborative software, data, hardware, or documentation. The SPDX License List includes a standardized short identifier, the full name, the license text, and a canonical permanent URL for each license and exception.
The purpose of the SPDX License List is to enable efficient and reliable identification of such licenses and exceptions in an SPDX document, in source files or elsewhere.
Open source licenses are licenses that comply with the Open Source Definition – in brief, they allow software to be freely used, modified, and shared. To be approved by the Open Source Initiative (also known as the OSI) a license must go through the Open Source Initiative’s license review process.
Our story begins with a band of volunteer lawyers who believed they could break new ground for LGBTQ+ people through the American justice system. They had $25 in the bank and a new name—Lambda Legal—that co-founder Bill Thom taped to his apartment mailbox using a Band-Aid. We were forced to become our own first client. When Bill Thom filed our incorporation paperwork as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, a panel of New York judges blocked our application because, in their view, our mission was “neither benevolent nor charitable.” We appealed and won—then got to work representing other members of our community in court.
A collection of awesome resources for running your own federated social media website.
A search engine for almost a billion US court cases and records.
REST API: https://www.judyrecords.com/api
(You have to e-mail them and request an API key.)
Has JSON and XML APIs: https://pacer.uscourts.gov/file-case/developer-resources
Needs an account.
The open database of sanctions targets and persons of interest. Persons of interest data provides the key that helps analysts find evidence of corruption, money laundering and other criminal activity. We consolidate data from a broad range of sources and take on the complex task of transforming it into a clean and well-understood dataset. OpenSanctions makes both its database and processing tools available for free. It's easy to use the material, contribute to the project and integrate the technology.
The Python code that drives @big_cases on Twitter. The pacer_rss_feeds.py file contains links to all of the RSS feeds that the bot monitors.
The SANS Institute's sample security policy documents, which are free to use as frameworks or templates for more specialized security policies.