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Open source software for legislation drafting: Try LEOS Pilot for yourself!

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A new version of LEOS, the open source software for legislation drafting, is available. This second major release is a result of the feedback on the LEOS Pilot 1.0.0, currently used for multiple hands-on workshops, a pilot across the European Commission services and by other parties.

The new version LEOS Pilot 2.0.0 includes several security and version management improvements, and also a new feature - annotations.

This means the possibility to:

  • add comments & highlights using annotations;
  • add suggestions on a part of text with the feature to accept and reject them or not.

While using LEOS Pilot 2.0.0, please note that the current template support is still the Ordinary Legislative Procedure of the European Union.
 


If you are interested in seeing how this works, what better way than trying it yourself?

Please take into account that some IT knowledge may be required to set up prerequisites and run the demo.

Make sure to have all the prerequisites up and running, download the release, unzip it and run the “run-all.bat” file. 

For more information on how to run the demo please check the README.txt

For more practical information, please check the “LEOS-Pilot_2.0.0.zip\LEOS-Pilot_2.0.0\docs\” folder for the Technical architecture.doc and HOWTO folder and our supporting documents.

The team and Mr. Leo S have made sure to make the supporting documentation clear, but if it is not, please don’t hesitate to send us an email at DIGIT-LEOS-FEEDBACK@ec.europa.eu.

About the previous release v 1.0.0.

The first version of LEOS Pilot was released end of 2017 and included some of the following features:

  • Improved version management, with major versions and possibility to see differences between versions;
  • Management of acts as a set of elements and global metadata are propagated across sub-elements;
  • Import feature, enabling to import some content already published in the Official Journal of the EU.

What is LEOS about?

Most of us have been involved at some point in time in editing and drafting personal notes, reports and other documents that were usually stored on a local machine. Easy thing, right?

However, let us now imagine the situation when the same document you are drafting and editing requires the input from other colleagues and friends. You can still edit locally and try to consolidate the different versions and feedback, but if you have many colleagues or friends, that would require a lot of work.

Therefore, it could be easier to have an online version you can all work on at the same time. Nothing new so far, but if we are talking about drafting and editing legislation, with complex sets of rules for the structure, while managing versions, comments, things are no longer so easy.

Hence, for the public administrations facing the challenge of drafting legislation, LEOS Pilot offers a solution, under LegIT (2016.38. Legislation Interoperability Tools) Action funded by ISA² Programme, released as open source under EUPL on Joinup.

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We hope to hear from you soon!

The LegIT Team

Thursday, 6 September, 2018