[open-economics] About Argentina and Openeconomics

Wed Feb 4 16:45:23 UTC 2015

Hi Alejandro,

I didn't mean to offend you and neither I meant you were lying or making
facts :) However, it is your opinion and we should keep our opinions out of
scientific articles. That is just the point and I am hoping you understand.

Consider a scientific paper that publishes articles frequently. We rarely
see the author's opinions over a topic. OK and OE follow the same principle
and kind of work the same way.

I am a bit tight on schedule - too many things going on. However, I also
believe there is no need for a skype meeting. You have our feedback so it
is up to you to decide to do some changes and stuff like that. I admit I
didn't see Paul's contributions because well... He is from the UK, so I bet
he knows what he is doing :)
Nevertheless, if you wish to discuss anything in particular in regard to OE
in Argentina, we can schedule something for sure and try to arrange
something for you, over there.

2015-02-04 16:40 GMT+00:00 alejandro <alejandrobaranek at gmail.com>:

> 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:
>
> Hi Alejandro,
>
> I have had a go at editing your article. It was a very interesting read -
> thank you.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> I made my changes as suggested edits - so you can accept or reject them.
>
> And I just noticed every paragraph in my email starts with "I". I'm not
> really so egocentric :-)
>
> Best of luck
>
> Paul
>
> Thanks Paul!
> I will look and take your comments. gdocs its a powerful tool for online
> collaboration in texts.
>
>
> On 3 February 2015 at 15:31, Gustavo Silva <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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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).
>>
>> Thank you for sharing!
>>
>> 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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Best Regards / Obrigado e com os melhores cumprimentos,
Gustavo
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