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Re: call to open up public data

Posted by Michael Lenczner on Jun 09, 2007; 3:19pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/call-to-open-up-public-data-tp1079p1081.html

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 <[hidden email]> wrote:

> i like the blog idea~
>
> Hugh McGuire wrote:
> > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6733619.stm
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> > also:
> > can we get a blog set up? all this internal info posting ought to be
> > out in the public.
> >
> > h.
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