The pull requests keep piling up. Can we make this a self-organizing directory that requires no major sacrifice by any small group to curate but instead relies on the larger community to handle administrivia while maintaining the small group of organizational owners as "just in case it goes off the rails" adult supervision?

• Proposal: Here is a proposal for making this a self-organizing group that can be used to house this repo and handle smooth operation going forward. If helpful, here is a new organization that can be used for this repo and/or other GitHub lawyer hacks and community building.

• Overview: The proposal is to use the GitHub API with a little hack to keep a large "team" with rights to merge and doing a lot more automatic vetting of pull requests. Basically, the idea is to add everyone who wants to be listed if they have enough commits (based on API search on user making pull request) and/or also providing write-access to a much broader segment of the community so many people eyes and hands make quick work of curation.

Thought it may be fun to have an IRC channel and to deploy BillingsBot, a legally aware Hubot (not yet deployed).

If anyone wants to hack on something, may be cool to link the bot to Open Law APIs or something like that. Example, BillingsBot get me the legislative history of PubLaw XYZ. Perhaps no interest or time, but thought I'd propose.

lawyersongithub on Freenode.

Hey @dpp,

It looks like things haven't been too active here even though there's a few un-addressed pull requests. I'd be happy to maintain/administer this repo.

I think since this project has started, many, many more lawyers have started using GitHub. In fact, I'm helping organize a meetup group in DC that is seeking to do just that.

Let me know!