[okfn-labs] Fwd: [open-data-day] Open Data Stack Exchange

Fri Apr 19 14:35:10 UTC 2013

This new proposal is only biased by accident - the initial energy came from
US people, so the original questions focus on US issues - and doesn't need
to stay that way. That bias will disappear with international participation.

On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 8:27 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>wrote:

> On 19 April 2013 13:20, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 8:00 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >> I was a follower, a questioner and a committer on this one and this
> >> (older) proposal just on "data":
> >>
> >> http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/37195/data
> >
> > That proposal seems less biased than the current one.  Any idea why it
> > failed?  The current one appears to be not only focused solely on the
> > U.S., but U.S. *government* data only, which seems like a very small
> > niche to organize a StackOverflow forum around.
>
> The original proposal hasn't yet failed but it seems to have got
> overtaken by the recent spurt on the open data one. personally i would
> be happy with either (but open data one would be sort of nice - no
> doubt there will still be generic questions but there'll be a nice
> "open" bias ;-))
>
> In terms of subject matter I agree re current bias re US and US gov
> data ;-) but i think that may be just an artefact of the initial round
> of question suggestion (and participants) and believe it is supposed
> to be all "open data".
>
> Rufus
>
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