In spite of Matt’s “youth” I’ve have had the pleasure to work with him for many years on a number of community start up projects. Matt is a remarkably bright and civically engaged young man.

I’m delighted to learn that he continues to make important, meaningful community contributions through this project which makes public information more open and readily accessible to all.

WRITE ON, MATT!:)

Bob: this is indeed built off of Django. All the code is online under a BSD-style license: link

(Nerd question: Django?)

With their history collections and the Ann Arbor News archives arriving, they have an excellent base of materials. They also have the skilled staff, a history of providing local information, and the structural stability to organize a project of this size.

The aim of the project today is to provide a quick place to put your files. We wanted something (a) local and (b) straightforward. If there’s something you want to share on the Chronicle, AnnArbor.com, Arbor Update, etc., you can do it with the minimum of hassle.

At this point, a2docs is intended to be a convenience rather than a 1-stop-shop. There are lots of features that we left out to do this. One of them is complicated organization, like tagging, folders etc.

Vivienne, I’d love to hear your ideas for more comprehensive access. One thing that would be nice to have is a catalog of local government information.