[ckan-discuss] fr.ckan.net / open government data hackday in Paris

[Rufus Pollock]

On 24 November 2010 11:43, Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou <b.ooghe at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> NosDonnees.fr will be handled by the community, Data Publica aims to
> be a marketplace for data. These are two different approaches : a
> citizen pushed and handled one, and an enterprise one.
>
> It's a bit like with GNU/Linux distributions : among the main leaders,
> there's the commercial enterprise one (Red Hat) and the 100% community
> one (Debian). Therefore we see it as totally complementary : the
> reactivity and care of the community on one side, and the commercial
> support brought by enterprises on the other.
> We're pretty confident that each data recorded on one side will be
> reported on the other and reciprocally :)

This all sounds great and I really like the analogy!

Rufus