Needed... an automated mechanism for making boston city council public notices more universally available.

Needed... an automated mechanism for making boston city council public notices more universally available.

[Don Saklad]

Needed... an automated mechanism set up that will take the forwarded boston
city council public notices and make available the public notices on a weblog
or accessible in listserver archives or via some similarly more universally
accessible web link.

Mastery of techniques for converting the formatting in .doc
would be one part of the difficultly.

Boston city council distributes only by email the full text of public notices
of council committees public meetings formatted in .doc

A difficult to operate online city calendar does give the location and only
the minimal keywords descriptors but not conveniently for people interested
in civic matters, click on Hearing Schedule at
http://cityofboston.gov/citycouncil
or click on upcoming public meetings and hearings at
http://cityofboston.gov/cityclerk/public_meeting.asp

City hall is unwilling to fix things, send plain text ASCII
or make the full text of the public notices available on the web at
http://cityofboston.gov/citycouncil/citycouncilpub.asp

At this end the distributed public notices are received in emacs rmail in a
plain text terminal window, the so called darwin on the imac apple computer.


Would any of you nice folks set it up or pass along the do it yourself
expertise for a neophyte without the mastery about how to do it...