[open-government] 1st. April joke?

Fri Apr 1 08:25:39 UTC 2011

I guess I missed this article from a week ago :
http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2011/03/23/transparency-technopocalypse-proposed-congressional-budgets-slash-funding-for-data-transparency/

This would be such a terrible step backwards, and such a wrong signal
to all countries who start considering openness...

Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 10:08, Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou <b.ooghe at gmail.com> wrote:
> I read everywhere as an answer that sunlight has been discussing it
> for a week but I'm following most of their rss and haven't read about
> it before yesterday eveing.
> Is this a really well organised joke?
> This webpage is seriously frightening :
> http://sunlightfoundation.com/savethedata/
>
>
> Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou
>
>
>
> 2011/4/1 Ton Zijlstra <ton.zijlstra at gmail.com>:
>> Sunlight foundation has been discussing this for a week already. Hope it is
>> a joke.
>>
>> Op 1 apr. 2011 09:57 schreef "Daniel Dietrich" <daniel.dietrich at okfn.org>
>> het volgende:
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> is this a 1st April joke?
>>>
>>>
>>> http://flowingdata.com/2011/03/31/data-gov-and-other-transparency-sites-to-be-shut-down-due-budget-cuts/
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Daniel
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