GovCenter paper 0.2.0: Shared Context from Public Meetings by afomi · Pull Request #1 · civicstudio/org

afomi · 2026-11-11T18:05:58Z

Checks in the GovCenter meeting distillation paper and moves it to 0.2.0 (draft for review).

The first commit is 0.1.0 as published on 2026-11-02, so the second commit shows this iteration on its own.

Changes in 0.2.0

Title is "Shared Context from Public Meetings", with "Distilling Public Meetings into Typed and Linked Data" as the subtitle.
Version and status ("Version 0.2.0 · Draft for review") are in the running page header.
Byline is "Ryan Wold · ryan@civic.studio"; the "GovCenter, a Civic Studio research project" line is gone.
Abstract makes the implicit connective context explicit, and numbers the three forms.
Disclosure section removed.
Manuscript and generated .tex are one sentence per line, so comments land on single sentences.

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README.md (body) and metadata.yaml (title, abstract) are the source.
The .tex and PDF are build outputs and are regenerated from them.

Two sentences are open in review comments with suggestions: the abstract's first sentence, and the 163-of-168 claim.

Not yet done: upload the 0.2.0 PDF to the org bucket and point the website at it, once this is approved.

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As published 2026-11-02 (PDF from the org bucket). The 0.1.0 .tex was a build output and is not included. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…sure - Title "Shared Context from Public Meetings", subtitle on its own line - Version and status in the running page header - Byline: Ryan Wold · ryan@civic.studio - Abstract: connective context made explicit; three forms numbered - One sentence per line in the manuscript and generated .tex - Disclosure section removed Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Suggestions for the two open sentences. Use "Commit suggestion" on the one you want.

afomi · 2026-11-11T18:06:10Z

+    email: ryan@civic.studio
+date: "November 11, 2026"
+abstract: |
+  Local governments decide in public, and almost all of the context for those decisions is on the record: hours of meeting video, agendas without times, roll calls, staff reports and minutes.


Option 1: people, not governments, make the decisions.

Suggested change

Local governments decide in public, and almost all of the context for those decisions is on the record: hours of meeting video, agendas without times, roll calls, staff reports and minutes.

People in local government make decisions in public, and almost all of the context for those decisions is on the record: hours of meeting video, agendas without times, roll calls, staff reports and minutes.

afomi · 2026-11-11T18:06:10Z

+    email: ryan@civic.studio
+date: "November 11, 2026"
+abstract: |
+  Local governments decide in public, and almost all of the context for those decisions is on the record: hours of meeting video, agendas without times, roll calls, staff reports and minutes.


Option 3: includes residents as participants.

Suggested change

Local governments decide in public, and almost all of the context for those decisions is on the record: hours of meeting video, agendas without times, roll calls, staff reports and minutes.

Elected officials, staff and residents work through local decisions together in public, and almost all of the context is on the record: hours of meeting video, agendas without times, roll calls, staff reports and minutes.

afomi · 2026-11-11T18:06:10Z

+  (2) The typed form is a set of records, each anchored to a second of the recording and carrying its source, confidence and review status.
+  (3) The linked form gives the real-world things a meeting refers to an identity that holds across meetings and years, so each new mention joins the ones before it.
+  Machines do most of the work of moving between forms, and a person confirms what will be shown publicly.
+  Applied to seven meetings of one municipal commission (about 130,000 words in session), the method placed 163 of 168 agenda items on the recording from speech alone and threaded a park project across all seven meetings.


163 of 168 is coverage (items timed from speech), not accuracy. This states both, using the June 3 hand check.

Suggested change

Applied to seven meetings of one municipal commission (about 130,000 words in session), the method placed 163 of 168 agenda items on the recording from speech alone and threaded a park project across all seven meetings.

Applied to seven meetings of one municipal commission (about 130,000 words in session), the method found where 163 of 168 agenda items begin in the recording from what was said, and threaded a park project across all seven meetings.

In the one meeting checked by hand, every spoken item was within 30 seconds of its true start.

afomi · 2026-11-11T18:06:10Z

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+## Executive Summary {-}
+
+A city decides in public, and the record of those decisions is mostly a recording that nobody opens again.


The Executive Summary opens the same way as the abstract. Matching option 1:

Suggested change

A city decides in public, and the record of those decisions is mostly a recording that nobody opens again.

People in local government make decisions in public, and the record of those decisions is mostly a recording that nobody opens again.

afomi and others added 2 commits November 11, 2026 09:44

Check in the GovCenter meeting distillation paper at 0.1.0

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As published 2026-11-02 (PDF from the org bucket). The 0.1.0 .tex was a build output and is not included. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

afomi commented Nov 11, 2026

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	Local governments decide in public, and almost all of the context for those decisions is on the record: hours of meeting video, agendas without times, roll calls, staff reports and minutes.
	People in local government make decisions in public, and almost all of the context for those decisions is on the record: hours of meeting video, agendas without times, roll calls, staff reports and minutes.

	Local governments decide in public, and almost all of the context for those decisions is on the record: hours of meeting video, agendas without times, roll calls, staff reports and minutes.
	Elected officials, staff and residents work through local decisions together in public, and almost all of the context is on the record: hours of meeting video, agendas without times, roll calls, staff reports and minutes.

	Applied to seven meetings of one municipal commission (about 130,000 words in session), the method placed 163 of 168 agenda items on the recording from speech alone and threaded a park project across all seven meetings.
	Applied to seven meetings of one municipal commission (about 130,000 words in session), the method found where 163 of 168 agenda items begin in the recording from what was said, and threaded a park project across all seven meetings.
	In the one meeting checked by hand, every spoken item was within 30 seconds of its true start.

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		## Executive Summary {-}

		A city decides in public, and the record of those decisions is mostly a recording that nobody opens again.

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