[foundation-board] Wikileaks blog post?

[Becky Hogge]

Hi Jonathan

Can you send some links to some of the stuff you're seeing?

Until I see the extent of the damage, I would err on the side of not
posting, for two reasons:

1) It might encourage a "me think she doth protest too much" interpretation
2) It might necessitate an explicit statement of OKF policy on
Wikileaks (condemn/defend), which would be difficult

Cheers

Becky

On 8 December 2010 13:39, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hi board,
>
> There's been quite a lot of press about the relation between open data
> movement and Wikileaks. Do you think we should issue a brief statement
> about how the two are orthogonal, and about how Wikileaks is *not*
> open data?
>
> The medium term risk is that governments start associating open gov
> data community with folks behind Wikileaks, and hence pushes open gov
> data stuff way down the agenda (undoing all the hard work that has
> been going on to get people excited and encourage governments to think
> opening up more official information **for others to reuse** is a good
> idea).
>
> I'm now seeing stuff on opendata / Wikileaks nearly every day, and I'm
> worried that this could be doing some damage, especially as its so
> high profile and getting *lots* of coverage...
>
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