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.
> 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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>> 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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