[open-government] 1st. April joke?

[Jonathan Gray]

Is anyone from Sunlight interested in issuing a rallying cry on the OKF blog?

2011/4/1 John Wonderlich <johnwonderlich at gmail.com>:
> We'd love for you to write about it, or sign our open letter.
> 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, and yesterday's news story, 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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