Re: ecfr

["Aaron Swartz" <xx@aaronsw.com>]

> let me get over my ecfr fundraising first.  :)  in any case, you have a foia
> request in for the ssa dmf, so let's let the clock tick for 20 days.  if we
> do raise money for the dmf (I'm thinking metaweb might put some cash in for
> that), having a foia in hand helps establish that we tried.
>
> sound like a plan?

Sounds good. Also, if you have another $500 it'd be nice to get:

http://www.irs.gov/taxstats/indtaxstats/article/0,,id=96816,00.html

I'm thinking of going down the list at http://data.nicar.org/node/61
and trying to get free versions of all of them.

>
> Carl
>
> On Sep 12, 2008, at 10:23 AM, Aaron Swartz wrote:
>
>> Yeah, we'll probably be required by law to buy the $6900 version so
>> that we can get the applicable updates. But if you think you can raise
>> the money, I'd love to do that.
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Carl Malamud <xxxxxxx@media.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sep 12, 2008, at 10:07 AM, Aaron Swartz wrote:
>>>
>>>> exciting stuff. I put in a FOIA request for NCOA ($5000) and SSA DMF
>>>> ($1725) but I worry that they'll find an excuse to make me pay...
>>>
>>> usps ncoa?  good luck.  btw, they included a shrinkwrap license agreement
>>> in
>>> one of their mailings to me, so we should assume we're under a EULA (but,
>>> if
>>> we extract facts, we are ok).
>>>
>>> for ssa dmf, why don't we just buy it and open source it?  it is fairly
>>> cheap.  but, are you sure you don't need the $6,900 product?  You also
>>> understand that you would be required by law to apply the weekly updates?
>>>
>>> Carl
>>>
>>
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