[open-government] 1st. April joke?

Mon Apr 4 14:15:54 UTC 2011

LeMonde.fr, first french media on the web, published an article on the
matter this afternoon :
http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2011/04/04/des-internautes-americains-tentent-de-sauver-data-gov_1502672_651865.html


Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou


2011/4/4 Jonathan Brun <jbrun at jonathanbrun.com>:
> Via James McKinney:
> Nothing is final. There is a budget that proposes cuts. But it is not law.
> The Administration opposes the bill and the President is prepared to veto it
> if it makes it through Senate without
> amendments http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/legislative/sap/112/saphr1h_20110215.pdf The
> Administration has also expressed its opinion here (see last para esp.)
> http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/03/17/sunshine-savings-and-service
> I think much of the media has made the situation sound worse than it is.
> OpenCongress and PopVox are excellent tools for following the progress of
> this
> bill: http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h1/show https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/112/hr1
>
> JB
> MontrealOuvert.net
> jonathanbrun.com
> On 2011-04-01, at 11:37 AM, Liane H wrote:
>
> To me, this looks like a political decision, not an economical one.
> Information is still power... Can we not put some impressive case studies
> together to undermine the economic argument? This makes it easier to get the
> media, politicians and academics involved and interested.
>
> On 1 April 2011 15:11, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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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