[open-government] 1st. April joke?

[John Wonderlich]

We'd love for you to write about it, or sign our open
letter<http://sunlightfoundation.com/savethedata/>
.

I'm totally open to other ideas for how we can affect this decision, we're
scrambling to contact legislators, and try to keep this from happening.

Unfortunately, the budget debate -- enthusiasm for big cuts, and a
completely secret set of negotiations -- is making it difficult to ascertain
where legislators stand, and provoke accountability.  That's why our
writing<http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2011/03/31/budget-technopocalypse-deepens-transparency-sites-will-go-dark-in-a-few-months/>,
and yesterday's news
story<http://www.federalnewsradio.com/?nid=35&sid=2327798>,
were such a wake-up call -- it's becoming clearer what the consequences of
cutting the e-gov fund are likely to be.

It would certainly help for people to realize just what kind of example
Data.gov is setting for the rest of the world, and what its importance is.


On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Daniel Dietrich <daniel.dietrich at okfn.org>wrote:

> 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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