[okfn-discuss] Contacting 'Free Our Data'

Mon Jun 19 09:53:27 UTC 2006

Dear colleagues,

I am taking this opportunity to give you one small but good news.  
We put on our site 
http://www.gnulinuxcentar.org
link to Open Kowledge Foundation site and according to statistics there were 
768 hits to OKF from our site. :-)

With best wishes,

Vedran Vucic

On Sunday 18 June 2006 21:42, Jo Walsh wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 03:04:21PM +0100, Rufus Pollock wrote:
> > Back when the Guardian's Free our Data campaign launched in March I
> > remember talking with Jo about contacting them since we have very
> > similar interests. While they did pick up on the Public Geodata site I
> > don't think they know about the OKF.
>
> Nod, i exchanged a couple of emails with Charles Arthur back in
> Feb/March during publicgeodata's First Big Push, and he was very open
> and receptive. At the time i was hyperfocusing on geodata completely
> and it wasn't clear how much wider they were going to cast their net.
> They're still plugging away at the Ordnance Survey, who are still
> being 'selective with the truth' to the UK and EU parliaments.
>
> Good luck making a stronger connection to them, i really wish i could
> be around for the event...
>
>
> jo
>
>
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