[open-government] 1st. April joke?

Wed Apr 13 14:17:53 UTC 2011

An update on the situation:

The latest budget deal cuts the e-government fund from $34 million per year
to $8 million.  That's far better than the $2M that was initially proposed
by House Republicans, but likely falls short of full egov operations.  It's
likely to pass into law unamended.

For our take, here's yesterday's blog post reiterating my disappointment in
the secretive budget process:

http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2011/04/12/public-cut-out-of-budget-negotiations/

...and here's Sunlight's SavetheData campaign page

http://sunlightfoundation.com/savethedata/

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou
<b.ooghe at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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