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#use wml::debian::template title="Debian-Lex"
#use wml::debian::recent_list
<h2>Project description</h2>
<p>Debian-Lex is an internal project to develop Debian into an operating
system that is particularly well fit for the requirements for legal
offices.
The goal of Debian-Lex is a complete system for all
tasks in legal practice which is built completely on free software.
</p>
<p>The general idea for this kind of project was adopted from the
<a href="$(HOME)/devel/debian-jr/">Debian Junior</a> and
<a href="$(HOME)/devel/debian-med/">Debian-Med</a> projects,
with the majority of the content of this Web site shamelessly pilfered
from the latter.
</p>
<p>Debian-Lex will contain a set of meta packages that declare dependencies on
other Debian packages, and that way the complete system is prepared for
solving particular tasks. We hope that there will soon be a framework for
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2003/debian-vote-200303/msg00014.html">
flavours of Debian</a> on which Debian-Lex will be based.
</p>
<p>We also envisage that Debian-Lex will add value to existing packages by
providing customised templates for lawyers. For example, templates would
be provided for OpenOffice.org, SQL-Ledger and a sample database schema
for PostgreSQL.
</p>
<h2><a id="news" name="news">News</a></h2>
<p><tt>[23 August 2005]</tt> <strong>Debian Lex is looking for a new co-ordinator.</strong><br>
<tt>[11 August 2003]</tt> <strong><a href="https://alioth.debian.org/projects/debian-lex">Our CVS server is up with initial versions of Debian-Lex packages</a></strong><br>
<tt>[2 May 2003]</tt> <strong><a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/05/02/1051382077620.html">Press: <em>Aussie leads development of open source O-S for lawyers</em></a></strong><br>
<tt>[23 Apr 2003]</tt> <strong><a href="$(HOME)/News/weekly/2003/16/">Debian-Lex makes DWN!</a></strong><br>
<tt>[19 Apr 2003]</tt> <strong><a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2003/debian-project-200304/msg00067.html">Initial proposal to developers</a></strong>
</p>
<!--<p>For older news items see the <a href="$(HOME)/devel/debian-lex/News/">Debian-Lex News Page</a>.</p>-->
<h2><a id="email-list" name="email-list">Email List</a></h2>
<p>The Debian-Lex mailing list is now available. You can subscribe to and
unsubscribe from it using
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-lex/">the list web page</a>,
and also read the
<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-lex/">list archives</a>.</p>
<h2><a id="projects" name="projects">Software projects to include</a></h2>
<p>The first attempt to put the projects into categories might be not
the best. Send any suggestions for improvements to the mailing list.
</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="software#administration">Legal office administration</a></li>
<li><a href="software#court">Court administration</a></li>
<li><a href="software#desktop">Legal desktop</a></li>
<li><a href="software#research">Legal research</a></li>
<li><a href="software#server">Legal office server</a></li>
<li><a href="software#other">Other</a></li>
</ul>
<h2><a id="goals" name="goals">Project goals</a></h2>
<ul>
<li>Build a solid software base for legal practice with emphasis on easy
installation, easy maintenance and security.</li>
<li>Bring authors of different projects with similar goals together.</li>
<li>Test suite for easy evaluation of the quality of legal software.</li>
<li>Provide information and documentation of legal software.</li>
<li>Help upstream authors to get their products packaged for
Debian.</li>
<li>Show commercial software companies the strengths of a solid base
system and make them consider to port their software to Linux or
even to switch to Open Source.</li>
</ul>
<h2><a id="talks" name="talks">Talks about Debian-Lex</a></h2>
We will add any talks about Debian-Lex here as source and preformatted
slides. It might be a good idea to check these pages to get some interesting
information about the project.
<h2><a id="help" name="help">What can I do to help?</a></h2>
<ul>
<li>Work on enhancing and translating these web pages.</li>
<li>Create a logo (here is an <a href="debian-lex.png">example</a>,
also in <a href="debian-lex.xcf">GIMP format</a>, and here is
the <a href="legaltux.png">legal TuX</a> on which it is based).</li>
<li>Packaging the above-mentioned software projects for Debian.</li>
<li>Building meta packages for different tasks.</li>
<li>Documentation and translation.</li>
<li>Internationalization (which is more than just translating
because of the different legal systems).</li>
<li>Building a live CD (perhaps based on <a
href="http://www.knoppix.de">Knoppix</a>).</li>
</ul>
<h2><a id="marketing" name="marketing">Marketing & PR</a></h2>
<p>Once we have something to show for this project, and indeed even in
the formative stages of this project, we are being watched by the
eyes of the world. We will necessarily want to work with
press@debian.org to get the word out and to help give Debian and
this project the kind of exposure we want. For this purpose we will
build a collection of slides of talks about Debian-Lex.
</p>
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