[open-government] 1st. April joke?

[Daniel Dietrich]

John,

this is *really* bad news.

What can we as an international community do?

Regards
Daniel
 
On 01.04.2011, at 14:34, John Wonderlich wrote:

> 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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