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

Thu Jul 21 11:33:03 UTC 2011

Please please don't restrict it to government. There are now open data 
people in most of the big international organisations who need to be 
supported in their open data work or helped to get it started... we have 
the World Bank, UN, WEF etc and the possibility of some of the other big 
international organisations joining in once they see how it's done.

But yes, I agree that the open government people have the critical mass 
and momentum and should spearhead and cheerlead this work.

Sj.

On 07/21/2011 01:21 AM, Tim McNamara wrote:
> On 17 July 2011 00:24, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org 
> <mailto:jonathan.gray at okfn.org>> wrote:
>
>     On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Sara Farmer
>     <sara.farmer at btinternet.com <mailto: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
>     <http://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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