[okfn-discuss] Fwd: Sharing your open government data stories

Tue May 31 00:37:36 UTC 2011

Aligning FOSS in government with access to government's data and open
government more generally would be a barrier to acceptance in my eyes. I
quite like that the site is quite targeted.

That said, I think it would be magnificent but tiresome process to create an
open *everything* catalogue.

On 30 May 2011 05:14, Neil McEvoy <neil at mcevoy.biz> wrote:

>
> Great idea.
>
> Although it would be a bit restrictive to limit to only Open Data case
> studies. How about a broader Open Government Catalogue, which incorporates
> general FOSS projects too?
>
> This would be a great tie-in to Cloud. The big centre piece of the UK's
> G-Cloud program is the need for an 'ASG' - Apps Store for Government, to
> encourage reuse across the public sector.
>
> This would seem something that the FOSS community would be ideal for
> developing, and this could include Open Data.
>
> Neil.
>
>
>
> > A good friend of mine has just publicly released a project he's been
> > working on: opendatastories.org. Please spread the word!
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Richard Best <rnzde at hotmail.com>
> > Date: 27 May 2011 17:48
> > Subject: [ninjas] Sharing your open government data stories
> > To: ninja-talk at groups.open.org.nz
> >
> >
> > Hi All
> >
> > A recent Gartner article called "Open Government Policies: Keeping
> > Faith or Pulling the Plug?"
> > (
> http://blogs.gartner.com/andrea_dimaio/2011/04/22/open-government-policies-keeping-faith-or-pulling-the-plug/
> )
> > made me think there is a real need for governmental open data projects
> > around the world to band together to create a repository of
> > benefit/success stories, which all countries could leverage. I thought
> > this could be done via an open website to which agencies,
> > organisations and individuals could all contribute their own open data
> > stories.
> >
> > I decided to build such a site, as a private - and not governmental -
> > initiative. The site is at http://opendatastories.org
> >
> > It would be great if those with stories - and those who know others
> > who have stories - could contribute their stories or encourage those
> > others to contribute. And, of course, it would be great if everyone
> > with an interest in this space could help spread the word.
> >
> > All feedback welcome.
> >
> > Best regards
> > Richard
> > -----------------------------------------
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