README

OpenLegislation
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`From the New York State Senate`

Dual BSD/GPL License. See the NYSenate `licensing page`_.

This is the Java Web app project for the open-source legislative access system developed by the NY Senate beginning in 2009. It provides both a HTML-based browser and search interface, as well as XML and JSON-based RESTful APIs.

.. _API Documentation: http://openlegislation.readthedocs.org
.. _legislation page: http://open.nysenate.gov/legislation
.. _FreeNode: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#nyss_openlegislation
.. _mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/nyss-dev
.. _licensing page: http://open.nysenate.gov/legislation/license/

Current Senate Developers
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* Ash Islam <islam@nysenate.gov>
* Kevin Caseiras <caseiras@nysenate.gov>
* Sam Stouffer <stouffer@nysenate.gov>
* Ken Zalewski <zalewski@nysenate.gov>

Past Developers
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* Nathan Freitas <nathanfreitas@gmail.com>
* Jared Williams <jared.mi.williams@gmail.com>
* Graylin Kim <kim@nysenate.gov>