Re: Show your support for open gov. data at ibelieveinopen.ca

Posted by Robin Millette on Sep 21, 2008; 3:35am
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Show-your-support-for-open-gov-data-at-ibelieveinopen-ca-tp1231p1233.html

Le Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:35:35 -0700 (PDT),
Jennifer Bell <[hidden email]> a écrit :

> The website ibelieveinopen.ca that I mentioned earlier this week is now live.  The site collects sigunups from citizens and pledges from political candidates on five issues related to government transparency.  We're still working on tweaking the look/feel and adding more pages to display the results, but the basic signup mechanism is working and ready for use.
>
> Pledges 4 and 5 are about open access to government data, so should be specifically of interest to this group.  I'll be sending out emails to MP candidates early next week -- it would be great to have a 'seed group' of citizen signups before then.  

I signed, I thought it was very simple and to the point. Daniel had a bunch of excellent points I won't repeat. I notice (perhaps it's a timezone issue) 5 Québécois already signed. Are you planning to offer the site in french? It would surely help me promote it inside and mostly outside Montreal.

Are you using
http://www.elections.ca/content.asp?section=ele&document=index&dir=40ge/can&lang=e&textonly=false
for your list of candidates?

And regarding postal codes and ridings, can you make that available right now as a web service, or are you going to release the data after the elections, or maybe even during?

> If this is an issue you feel strongly about, please show your support.
>
> http://ibelieveinopen.ca

Yes I do!

P.S.: it would be great if your site was an Open Network Service as
defined here:
http://opendefinition.org/osd

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Robin Millette
http://rym.waglo.com/