[open-economics] About Argentina and Openeconomics

Wed Feb 4 16:40:43 UTC 2015

Hi Gustavo and Paul:

Thank you very much for reading and your comments. I answer between lines

> On Feb 4, 2015, at 7:14 AM, Paul King <paul.kinguk at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi Alejandro,
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> I have had a go at editing your article. It was a very interesting read - thank you.
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> I have made quite a lot of changes. My intention was to make sure the English was correct, not to change your writing style and certainly not to edit the content - so I hope I haven't done that.
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> I'm not very experienced at editing Google Docs on line, but if it's worked (I hope) I'm very impressed with it as a method for collaboration.
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> I made my changes as suggested edits - so you can accept or reject them.
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> And I just noticed every paragraph in my email starts with "I". I'm not really so egocentric :-)
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> Best of luck
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> Paul
Thanks Paul!
I will look and take your comments. gdocs its a powerful tool for online collaboration in texts.

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> On 3 February 2015 at 15:31, Gustavo Silva <gustavosantaremsilva at gmail.com <mailto:gustavosantaremsilva at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Hi Alejandro,
> Hi Paul,
> 
> I took a look at your article. It is definitely very interesting and supportive of our cause. Don't take my comments as negative criticism, but instead try to see them as a constructive critic. I didn't do much of a spell check because my English is not perfect either. My focus was on the content of the article. I am expecting your intention to develop great things for Argentina with this group (and with help from all others). I can help you meeting the right people, if you are interested.
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Of course, It would be great to meet the right people! 
I’m very open to any comment, All of us who works with data we are  aware about facts and I gladly want to build a piece based on facts.
But believe me, many things you can read as opinions are facts or meant to be for showing what is happening in Argentina with public discussion and what becomes if the State start to political interfere with official statistics.

> Open Economics (and OK) focus is to increase the debate quality and challenge the status quo and standards, providing scientific explanations for their inputs. Therefore, we cannot publish any personal/opinion articles.
I Agree totally. Let’s try to clean it from opinion, but take into account that I’m talking about a real situation in a real country.

> You raised very interesting and valid points and I am willing to post it if the content of the article is more focused in showing why open data is important to the development of a country. In that sense, if you are willing to rephrase some of your paragraphs, I think it would be perfect.
> Most of my "Unnecessary" comments are actually aimed to those bits that you introduced your own opinion. As explained before, we cannot publish such and I hope you understand. You may be 200% correct, but they are still personal opinions. We can't take parties or opinions, since one of our principles is independence from all interested parties. 
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For the record: I’m not in any party: in any case, I could be in the “open data/knowledge party”. I show data from a party.

> One more thing: Avoid You're, isn't and other similar abbreviations. Formal English requires one to write it completely. Please replace all abbreviations you wrote with its full version (You're = You are; it's = it is; and so on).
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> Thank you for sharing!
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Thanks you for your valuable contribution! I will answer your comments on the google drive.

Any other contribution or reading is wellcome.
Gustavo and Paul: Do you want to schedule a Skype session for discussing it?

Best, Ale.

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