[open-government] 1st. April joke?

Sun Apr 3 22:05:53 UTC 2011

Via James McKinney:

Nothing is final. There is a budget that proposes cuts. But it is not law.

The Administration opposes the bill and the President is prepared to veto it if it makes it through Senate without amendments http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/legislative/sap/112/saphr1h_20110215.pdf The Administration has also expressed its opinion here (see last para esp.) 
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/03/17/sunshine-savings-and-service

I think much of the media has made the situation sound worse than it is. OpenCongress and PopVox are excellent tools for following the progress of this bill: http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h1/show https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/112/hr1

JB
MontrealOuvert.net
jonathanbrun.com

On 2011-04-01, at 11:37 AM, Liane H wrote:

> To me, this looks like a political decision, not an economical one. Information is still power... Can we not put some impressive case studies together to undermine the economic argument? This makes it easier to get the media, politicians and academics involved and interested.
> 
> On 1 April 2011 15:11, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
> Is anyone from Sunlight interested in issuing a rallying cry on the OKF blog?
> 
> 2011/4/1 John Wonderlich <johnwonderlich at gmail.com>:
> > We'd love for you to write about it, or sign our open letter.
> > I'm totally open to other ideas for how we can affect this decision, we're
> > scrambling to contact legislators, and try to keep this from happening.
> > Unfortunately, the budget debate -- enthusiasm for big cuts, and a
> > completely secret set of negotiations -- is making it difficult to ascertain
> > where legislators stand, and provoke accountability.  That's why our
> > writing, and yesterday's news story, were such a wake-up call -- it's
> > becoming clearer what the consequences of cutting the e-gov fund are likely
> > to be.
> > It would certainly help for people to realize just what kind of example
> > Data.gov is setting for the rest of the world, and what its importance is.
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Daniel Dietrich <daniel.dietrich at okfn.org>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> John,
> >>
> >> this is *really* bad news.
> >>
> >> What can we as an international community do?
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> Daniel
> >>
> >> On 01.04.2011, at 14:34, John Wonderlich wrote:
> >>
> >> > Hi, unfortunately this is not a joke.
> >> >
> >> > John
> >> >
> >> > On Friday, April 1, 2011, Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou <b.ooghe at gmail.com>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >> 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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