[open-government] 1st. April joke?

[John Wonderlich]

Hi, unfortunately this is not a joke.

John

On Friday, April 1, 2011, Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou <b.ooghe at gmail.com> wrote:
> I guess I missed this article from a week ago :
> http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2011/03/23/transparency-technopocalypse-proposed-congressional-budgets-slash-funding-for-data-transparency/
>
> This would be such a terrible step backwards, and such a wrong signal
> to all countries who start considering openness...
>
> Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 10:08, Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou <b.ooghe at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I read everywhere as an answer that sunlight has been discussing it
>> for a week but I'm following most of their rss and haven't read about
>> it before yesterday eveing.
>> Is this a really well organised joke?
>> This webpage is seriously frightening :
>> http://sunlightfoundation.com/savethedata/
>>
>>
>> Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou
>>
>>
>>
>> 2011/4/1 Ton Zijlstra <ton.zijlstra at gmail.com>:
>>> Sunlight foundation has been discussing this for a week already. Hope it is
>>> a joke.
>>>
>>> Op 1 apr. 2011 09:57 schreef "Daniel Dietrich" <daniel.dietrich at okfn.org>
>>> het volgende:
>>>> Dear all,
>>>>
>>>> is this a 1st April joke?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://flowingdata.com/2011/03/31/data-gov-and-other-transparency-sites-to-be-shut-down-due-budget-cuts/
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Daniel
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