Re: Census 2006 available for Linux User

Posted by Tracey P. Lauriault-2 on May 18, 2006; 8:31pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Re-Census-2006-statistics-tp583p623.html

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Jason Loughead wrote:

Ok the founder of the groups should reflect the mandate in a more narrowly 
focused mission if people are to join with the right goals in mind. This is 
purely about access to data from the government? Aren't there already 
consumer and civil liberties groups working on this?

Jason


On Thursday 18 May 2006 3:59 am, Michael Lenczner wrote:
  

i wonder if people understood michael's point that being upset about
the way that the government collects data has nothing to do with
CivicAcces's goal of getting access to data once it is collected.  i
didn't even realize the distinction at first.

He's not saying that it's not important - just that is has nothing to
do directly with CivicAccess.

Russel is correct in saying that this is a more gosling appropriate.

Staying focused is going to be more difficult that I thought- not be
going into projects more appropriate for Gosling, Facil (quebec free
software umbrella group), digital/copyright canada, etc.

On 5/17/06, Michael Boyle [hidden email] wrote:
    

Hi,

Tracey I totally agree with you. That's why I am disappointed that a)
so much thrash is being wasted on whether or not the census form is
accessible, thrash that has generated a lot of heat but not much
light; and, b) the list doesn't seem to be concentrating on the
issues that you have been posting about - that is, the civic access
to data.

I agree that there are important issues to deal with related to these
subjects - I don't think that a critique of the census form online is
relevant to this mission. And I certainly don't think that drawing
any conclusions about "government online" based on one census form is
even a little bit useful. Rather, it is a meaningless distraction
from the work that you have been trying to do.

MB

On 17-May-06, at 12:20 AM, Tracey P. Lauriault wrote:
      

as many have pointed out we are trying to make social, economic,
political, environmental, health etc. data & information available
to Canadians.
        

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Michael Boyle                                           www.mikel.org



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