I've seen too many communities unfairly represented by minority views
that have the time and energy to put into communications - especially
as the communities gain traction. This could also easily be a problem
for people trying to take a shortcut in capitalizing financially (as a
consultant or developer) from the movement. I'm not sure how we could
prevent that from happening here. I know that it seems idiotic to
talk about that when there's not huge things happening on this list
yet and what a blog would be is an attempt to promote the issue. But
it can really easily turn into a really messy problem.
I would suggest that a few people start a separate blog on the issue
and that we could link to it from the front page. It would have a
different but complementary brand than CivicAccess (something like
free our data.ca?) If it went in a direction that the mainstream
participants of the list weren't comfortable with, we could just
unlink.
I would be happy to participate on that group blog, I just would feel
nervous about starting a group blog that would purportedly represent
the civicaccess mailing list if there was no clear editorial policy
along with directions about who could publish.
On 6/9/07, Tracey P. Lauriault <
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