Illinois Secretary of State's Advisory Committee Drafting Project

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Idea 1.01 If after each subsection there was (you have to look at this in the edit window to appreciate) there was a html tag to invoke brown so that the comment section would come out in brown and then close the html tag ahead of the next section so that the body of the draft would continue in black. Too much htmlling however will make this difficult for the read and write user. I guess the question is where to draw the line. And if you ask WhyBrown it is because I think red is too bright for comments and blue is taken for the links. JohnDeBruyn (7 Sept 2000)

Note maybe the pages should be IlSosPages so that I could start CoSosPages and link my itty-bitty drafting project for my subcommittee project with the Keatinge Committee in Colorado. And IlSos would be reserved for the home page of your projects. Need to think a head on this. JohnDeBruyn (7 Sept 2000)

Idea 1.02 Take a look in the edit window at the first line of the raw text on Lin Hanson's page:

http://TWiki.SourceForge.net/cgi-bin/view/Tax/TaxLlcArticle

The % INCLUDE{"WhatEver"} % tag has real possibilities to construct headers, footers, dividers and such to organize (I wonder if that is the right word each of the Web pages the pages used to handle the several sections of a large drafting project. Thanks, JohnDeBruyn (September 19, 2000)

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Hi Lin:

May be your project will be a break through in the collaborative use and shairing of information over the Web. Both Bridges/ and Twiki/Tax/ would be available for the effor--that is what they are all aboutt. We would probably want to look at what AICPA tax tech committee was doing a couble of years ago and talk with Gene and Ed who spear headed that effort at Bridges/

Twiki/Tax would be better as you could use html and would have user ids. We could do a project cluster of pages. Take another look at /Tax/Tax and /Tax/Int in the Twiki/Tax set up. Without trying to say exactly what to do in a drafting project but section number or letters would to great.

The document structure, the aggregate pages to be used to set the working draft forth would need to be thought through in advance. Perhaps an introduction to the project, a preface to the act, an over view of each major component of the act (part, subchapter or what ever that is called in Illinois), a page for each section.

Body of the section at the top and comments, discussion after each subsection, at the bottow of the page or play it by ear. Consider a signing convention like the AICPA guys did over at Bridges/ and pages for each of the participants that would like to their signatures.

This is an exciting prospect,

John

P.S. The numbering during the drafting period would need to accomodate the Web masters time to reorganize things. We will have to see whether sections added during the drafting process would be given an a point 1 point 2 estension of (.1, .2) or a,b,c. et cetera.

P.P.S. In order to get the hang of this let me put our conversation, your email below and my reply here, over on a page at the Twiki site so that we can get the hang of some of this as we work though the initial scheme for Web page structure and collaboration conventions. Again we should build on the experience of the AICPA guys at Bridges/ J. That page at Twiki will start as:

That page at Twiki will start as:

http://twiki.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/view/Tax/IsosPages

Would you copy your email to me over to that page.

P.P.P.S. Just using the Web read/write pages to get organized andbrain storm the project organization and conventions will be an learning exercise in itself about this new medium for collaboration and information sharing. J

-- JohnDeBruyn - 07 Sep 2000

-- JohnDeBruyn - 11 Sep 2000

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