[open-data-manual] How do I suggest things for the manual?

[Tim McNamara]

On 17 July 2011 00:24, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Sara Farmer <sara.farmer at btinternet.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> And now for question 2).  I'm also looking online for a list of all the
>> open data communities out there.  The best I can find (given that I've not
>> been around this space for a while) is the camps list from the December Open
>> Data Day, at http://www.opendataday.org/wiki/Main_Page - is there
>> anywhere else that lists who's doing what around the world?  I got asked
>> yesterday if I knew of any groups in Burkina Faso and Guatemala, and
>> couldn't come up with a definitive answer, for example.
>>
>>
> Daniel, Tim: suggest we do this as part of opengovernmentdata.org? We
> should also:
>
>   * invite members from each initiative/group around the world to join the
> Working Group on Open Government Data
>   * have a full list of members on: http://opengovernmentdata.org/members
>   * have a nice, easy to browse list of open government data initiatives
> from around the world at: http://opengovernmentdata.org/directory
>   * invite someone from each initiative/group around the world to
> participate in the Open Government Data Camp in Warsaw this October - we can
> use this as an excuse to do a big open government data audit ;-)
>

I think that restricting it to government would be too narrow. There's *lots
* of momentum surrounding open data more broadly, however the open
government folk would indeed have the critical mass to promote the idea
fully.
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