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Re: call to open up public data

Posted by Hugh McGuire on Jun 09, 2007; 3:34pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/call-to-open-up-public-data-tp1079p1082.html

ok i will set something up early next week. everyone invited to  
participate.

h.



On Jun 9, 2007, at 11:19 AM, Michael Lenczner wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>> 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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