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

Fri Jun 3 09:46:56 UTC 2011

One thing I've been wanting to do for *ages* is to draft an incredibly
minimal baseline definition for what open government data is
(basically open as in opendefinition.org) and get sign on from as many
governments as possible. ;-)

This would basically be the lowest common denominator between Public
Data Principles, Open Government Directive, NZ Goal, and lots of other
sets of principles. The more signatories the merrier. I've spoken to
people at UK Cabinet Office and White House about this in the past.

Anyone up for it?

Perhaps we could start putting ideas for WG activities into
ideas.okfn.org tagged "wg-ogd" or something? Or here:
http://opengovernmentdata.okfnpad.org/todo ?

J.

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Daniel Dietrich
<daniel.dietrich at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hi
>
> On 02.06.2011, at 04:12, Tim McNamara wrote:
>
>> 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:
>
> Yes I have :)
>
>>
>> - what the goals of this community are or should be?
>
> act as hub, be a network of best practice, build a comprehensive knowledge base and documentation (e.g. the mapping project and the open data manual)
>
>> - what kinds of activities we could or should undertake?
>
> until know this working group does mostly function as a low volume mailing list where people drop news and raise questions. That is great - but I think we could do much better.
>
>> - 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 like the idea of building an "advisory team", but also see some problems there, see comments in the incubator.
>
> Daniel
>
>>
>> I am very keen to host a teleconference over Skype for anyone interested.
>>
>>
>>
>> Tim McNamara
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