[Project Application] Oh Yay!

[peteyreplies]

I HEREBY INVOKE MY RIGHTS...

As described in section 11.11.B of the BIFFUD Corporate Bylaws I hereby invoke
my rights as a sentient being who has not uploaded their mind to the cloud for consideration of this project application by the BIFFUD Hive Mind. With this
application I submit my interest in becoming a Member of BIFFUD and having this
project supported and adored by all who can 🤔.

Project Information

• Project Name: Oh Yay!

• Project Haiku: [5 / 7 / 5]
  since norman conquest
  legal audio has sucked;
  still does, differently

• Project Analogy: [It's like startup for thing]
  It's like public civic education, but makes it worse.

Project Description

The basic version of this idea is really simple. We take a good, honorable, public minded resource:

Oyez (pronounced OH-yay)—a free law project from Cornell’s Legal Information Institute (LII), Justia, and Chicago-Kent College of Law—is a multimedia archive devoted to making the Supreme Court of the United States accessible to everyone. It is the most complete and authoritative source for all of the Court’s audio since the installation of a recording system in October 1955. Oyez offers transcript-synchronized and searchable audio, plain-English case summaries, illustrated decision information, and full-text Supreme Court opinions (through Justia). Oyez also provides detailed information on every justice throughout the Court’s history and offers a panoramic tour of the Supreme Court building, including the chambers of several justices.

and make it different, perhaps worse.

The originating idea here was my frustration that Oyez's podcast is only available on Apple Podcasts and constantly breaks (there is a web version that tends to reload every time you open the table, making it sort of impossible to multitask while listening to oral arguments). After months of regularly emailing Oyez and asking them to also publish to Spotify, I wanted to find a way to do that myself by grabbing, modifying, and republishing the feed to Spotify myself, since Oyez's audio is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

However, then there was a big conversation in the Slack about possibly doing other things with the audio, such as "autotune the Court," or mashing it up with old town road, or whatever. IDK it seems like doing anything to bring e.g. https://www.oyez.org/cases/1964/294 or https://www.oyez.org/cases/1969/399 into the broader public knowledge seems worthwhile. There's lots of interesting metadata with Oyez like which Justices said which things at argument. Possibly we could automatically generate SCOTUS covers of songs using some kind of database of justices saying words.

Bylaw Questions

How is this project a bad idea?

unbelievably niche audience of like maybe 6 people

If this project were a D&D Character, what alignment would it be and why?

Alignment (CHOOSE ONE):

• Lawful Neutral

Don't know? This might help

Where are the lulz?

T-PAIN THE COURT

How does this project make people thinking face emoji?

through CRIME

Who is involved?

tbd

Who will be the project's Comptroller?

tbd

Is this realistic to implement via BIFFUD?

yes because there's a wide range of possible deliverables the most simple of which I could probably do myself even with my tiny baby brain

Next Steps

1. Attend the next scheduled BIFFUD plotting session to plead your case.
2. [List out your project plan here, in a series of steps]

How (often) will you be providing updates to the organization?

[Ideas are great, action is better! How often should we expect you
to be able to make progress? How would you like to report back]

[slifty]

... Can we please auto tune / overlay each hearing to Trapped in the Closet.

[peteyreplies]

version 0.1 (just get 2019 oral arguments on Spotify) is live: https://open.spotify.com/show/5p15aKdH13yumTHnzASiJA

this uses feedburner to grab the Oyez 2019 RSS feed at https://api.oyez.org/podcasts/oral-arguments/2019 and republish it to http://feeds.feedburner.com/UsSupremeCourtCurrentTermArguments. Note that the iTunes podcast has all historical arguments (I think?), but Oyez for some reason seems to publish a different feed for every term. Ideally, a future version would include all cases.

Also, according to Feedburner this already has 79 subscribers???

[peteyreplies]

version .12:

• tried to update description to "Oral arguments before the Supreme Court of the United States, presented by Oyez, a multimedia judicial archive at the IllinoisTech Chicago-Kent College of Law, and re-presented for Spotify by BadIdeaFactory under the terms of Oyez’s Creative Commons license."

• tried to update logo to https://cl.ly/756543a69a46

• tried to update author to biffud

but not sure if feedburner is accepting these updates? still trying to figure it out

[peteyreplies]

ah, i rebuilt the feed and it fixed

[peteyreplies]

@slifty can this count as the thing i built for love to become a biffud whatever

[peteyreplies]

The next thing I would like to do with this is make it so it is comprehensive from the entire SCOTUS history/Oyez feed, and is in the correct chronological order with some good way to separate by dates or whatever. But Oyez's data is structured weird and I don't know how to do this yet.