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

Fri Jun 3 03:54:57 UTC 2011

Thanks Neil, this is a great suggestion. I've often thought that it would be
great if there was a vehicle to provide vendor neutral expertise to
agencies. If you would be interested in spearheading this initiative, that
would be excellent.

I've added your suggestion to the OKFN Ides Incubator[0]. Please
expand/comment on the idea here, there or both :)

Tim McNamara
Professional \\  paperlessprojects.com
Personal \\  @timClicks <http://twitter.com/timClicks>  |  timmcnamara.co.nz

[0] http://ideas.okfn.org/ideas/168/open-government-advisory-team

On 3 June 2011 00:12, Neil McEvoy <neil at mcevoy.biz> wrote:

>
> Great Tim, I'm keen for action too.
>
> My goals are to build a best practices network, ie to help Government
> agencies plan and implement Open Gov.
>
> So I'd like to help create a repository of repeatable practice documents
> and open source software.
>
> Neil.
>
>
> > 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
> > Professional \\  paperlessprojects.com
> > Personal \\  @timClicks <http://twitter.com/timClicks>  |
> > timmcnamara.co.nz
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>
>
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> Cloud Best Practices Network
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