Re: action for 2006 Census / mouvement pour accéder les données du recenssement 2006

Posted by Russell McOrmond-2 on Mar 13, 2006; 5:03pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/action-for-2006-Census-mouvement-pour-acceder-les-donnees-du-recenssement-2006-tp340p355.html

Tracey P. Lauriault wrote:
> maybe we can do an online thing like jo walsh (http://frot.org/) did for
> data - http://publicgeodata.org/ - or that my pal chris lawson
> (http://www.cmkl.ca/cv) - did for daycare -
> http://www.buildchildcare.ca/BE_petition.php/honourthem.

   A quick note:  Online petitions are great for building a community
around an idea (and educating people), but an old tree-killing paper
petition to parliament actually causes the government to have to respond.

   Make sure that if you do the online petition thing that you hare
realistic expectations about its impact.

   Also, don't presume that an online petition will get more names.  Our
experience with http://www.digital-copyright.ca/petition/ is that while
the online petitions got a few hundred signatures that the paper
petition to parliament got a few thousand signatures (and are still
coming in/etc).

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