In 2022, a local #alamtg activist named Rasheed Shabazz was asking around on twitter about digitizing meeting minutes and monthly reports from local organizations as part of his ongoing research into the racial history of Alameda.
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So one month into the project, we had 50k pages across two cities. Not bad!
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Berkeley didn't use Legistar. It didn't use any system I had seen before, and it had minutes going back to 1905.
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This was where I started exploring #tesseract, and building a pipeline for this project that could run entirely on one machine.
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