[Air-L] Non-software uses of GitHub

[Ed Summers]

Hi Jim,

You may have run across this already but the unitedstates project [1] use GitHub repositories to curate open datasets, such as a dataset about current and historical members of the US Congress [2]. I'd definitely be interested hear what you find if you have time to post about it.

//Ed

[1] https://theunitedstates.io/
[2] https://github.com/unitedstates/congress-legislators

> On Nov 22, 2017, at 2:23 PM, Jim Herbsleb <jim.herbsleb at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I’m looking for GitHub repositories that are used for things other than software, especially where users are actively collaborating rather than just putting together static collections. So far, we have found a few books being written, some musical transcriptions being error-checked, and some policy documents maintained online.
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> Does anyone know of any examples of these or other categories?  Any pointers much appreciated. Happy to share what we find with anyone interested.
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