http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/public-announcement-draft-1-tp256p275.html
looks great mike. one small suggestion for para 5 (just my 2 cents, fine
> Here's draft version 0.98 of the public announcement.
>
> Unless anyone has problems with it I would suggest that we use it.
> I'll wait 24 hours for comments/suggestions.
>
> ------------------------------------
>
>
> We would like to announce the launch of a new online space for
> Canadian civic engagement - Citizens for Open Access to Civic
> Information and Data (CivicAccess). CivicAccess is being founded by
> librarians, civil servants, GIS and IT professionals, academics,
> lawyers, open-source advocates, and community planners from across
> Canada. We are motivated by the belief that open civic information
> and data are necessary tools for being engaged citizens in an
> "information society".
>
> Our goals are:
>
> 1) to encourage all levels of government to make civic data freely
> accessible in open formats and to work with them to help make that
> happen.
>
> 2) to support projects that use new online technologies to enable
> citizens to easily find and share public information and data as well
> as to re-contextualize that information in ways that make it
> meaningful to them.
>
> Access to civic information and data help us make informed choices as
> voters. In addition they help to ensure government transparency and
> accountability - essential elements of a democracy. In addition these
> are the bits and bytes required to understand, critically analyze, and
> re-envision the communities in which we live.
>
> As engaged citizens of our neighborhoods, cities, and provinces we are
> working to develop a community of practice around open civic data in
> Canada.
>
> This is an idea whose time has come. Please join us in making it a reality!
>
> signed:
>
> Names
>
>
>
>
> On 2/13/06, Stephane Guidoin <
[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>>>Basically, yup. Hopefully we can get some of the biggies to blog it,
>>>too. If someone wants to send it as a press release that would
>>>probably be okay as well - I'm not a PR guy so I don't know if there's
>>>any reason to try that.
>>>
>>>Anyone else have ideas?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>To me there's a difference between invitation and press release. Actual
>>participants could send invitations to people they know. But it could
>>be interesting to make a press release which is more an announcement
>>than an invitation.
>>
>>For example Online Rights Canada made a press release (I copied it there
>>after as a reminder). But obviously, we don't have the same target as
>>ORC : we want people to be participants and not spectators.
>>
>>The text Mike sent might not have the right tone to be added on a
>>website. But it's good when you make a invitation to someone you know.
>>To me, only the first sentence really needs to be changed to make
>>something more public and opened.
>>
>>Stef
>
> <snip>
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