Hi Jim, I'm Ed, developer and PhD candidate in sociology. In Brazil (my homeland) the telecom lobby started to consider data caps for broadband (landline). A acquaintance started a repo on GitHub listing ISP that were publicly saying they wouldn't adopt any data cap. This repo had massive contributions until we automatize the process so even people without Git/GitHub knowledge could contribute. The repo ends up as aa kind of open catalogue of small companies challenging the monopoly power of the 3 biggest telecoms in Brazi have a huge market share (80% I guess) and were the three companies pushing the data cat strategy. This is the repo <https://github.com/InternetSemLimites/InternetSemLimites> (in pt-BR). It's in the top 5 of Brazilian GitHub projects <https://medium.com/@hoffa/the-top-github-projects-per-country-92c275e19409>. I got involved in the very beginning of this repo and I'm happy to give more info — just drop a line if interested ; ) Cheers, Ed On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 5:33 PM Jim Herbsleb <jim.herbsleb@gmail.com> wrote:
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.
Does anyone know of any examples of these or other categories? Any pointers much appreciated. Happy to share what we find with anyone interested.
Jim
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