[open-government] We've reached 500 members - what next?

Thu Jun 2 12:21:30 UTC 2011

This is good to know, Tim. Given the large list of no doubt knowledgeable participants, I think that solicitation of ideas for goals, activities and subgroups is a potentially useful exercise, if there is enough time to manage new ones. Some obvious examples of possible topics would be focusing on types of info (text, databases, statistics, images/visualizations, audio, etc), info functions (e.g., citations/metadata/rights management, etc), sectors (e.g., geospatial/health/human rights, etc), or geographic (e.g., regions/countries). There may be problems with some (many) of these topics and redundancies with other specialized groups, but it's worth exploring.

Paul

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Subject: [open-government] We've reached 500 members - what next?

I've just checked this list's administration page, and the group's membership count has reached 508. Amazing.

I would like to make sure that we're ensuring people have options to participate in activities other than communicating amongst each other. Noting that we're the open government working group, let's make sure that if there are people who would like jobs to do that they have an opportunity to do so.

Does anyone have any views on:

 - what the goals of this community are or should be?
 - what kinds of activities we could or should undertake?
 - whether a smaller group should be formed from within this community to do activities, and allow the mailing list to be for broader communication?

I am very keen to host a teleconference over Skype for anyone interested.

Tim McNamara
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