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Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of Stolen Lives Documentation System -
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Rudy Gevaert |
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Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of Stolen Lives Documentation System - savannah.nongnu.org |
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Thu, 20 Feb 2003 04:11:51 -0500 |
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Hi,
I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in Savannah.
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 09:12:54PM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
>
> A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
>
>
> isaac <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License:
> Package: Stolen Lives Documentation System
> System name: slpdb
> Type: non-GNU
>
> Description:
> The Stolen Lives Project technical team has decided to make the source code
> that will drive the Stolen Lives Project available under the GPL. We are
> doing this for a number of reasons.
>
> First and foremost: the situation that we face today is urgent. The number
> and rate of people killed by law enforcement agents have jumped alarmingly in
> this new political climate of increased \"homeland security\" and repressive
> laws, which give law enforcement agents a green light for their lethal
> actions. Racial profiling of Arab, Muslim and South Asian immigrants has
> become commonplace and legally acceptable, along with the continued and
> stepped up harassment of populations traditionally \"under the gun\" of
> police brutality. This issue affects all of us. People\'s ability to speak
> out, to get organized and to protest on any issue, including against the war
> in Iraq, will be greatly limited by the development of a police state
> terrorizing its population.
>
> Stolen Lives provides important and compelling exposures of the nationwide
> epidemic of police brutality and murder. People who\'ve been killed, their
> families and loved ones, and communities under the gun speak through the
> pages and tell their stories. And they get a platform to speak out even more
> broadly.
>
> The most recent edition of the Stolen Lives book documents over 2,000 cases
> of people killed by U.S. law enforcement agents (police, etc.) since 1990.
>
> We believe that with minor customizations, the same database structure and
> web-based application behind Stolen Lives can be used by other organizations
> to document and expose all kinds of human rights abuses around the world.
>
> We are consciously moving this project out of the grips of proprietary
> software to make it possible for the largest number of people to participate
> in both the development of the software that drives it, as well as to
> increase the ability of people who know about cases to add them to the
> project and to participate in its development.
>
> Organizations and people working on human rights issues have a common
> interest in supporting this project. We hope that in addition to
> accomplishing our more immediate goals of releasing a new version of the
> book, \"Stolen Lives: Killed by Law Enforcement\", we can help to create a
> flowering of documentation of human rights abuses by making the tools
> available.
>
> At this time, no source code is ready to show. The main work right now is
> converting the data from the old proprietary system over to a Free database.
>
> The project will utilize PHP and MySQL (possibly other backends).
>
> You can find out more about the project and read the cases we document at
> http://stolenlives.org
>
> Other Software Required:
> PHP
> MySQL or possibly other
>
> Other Comments:
Afther the lengthy description, I still do not understand what your
project does.
Could you please resubmit your project again with a
detailed *technical* description?
Half a page will do.
Rudy
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