[Open-Legislation] Open Legislation Stream at OKFestival

Sun Mar 4 19:50:44 UTC 2012

Hi Tom,

On 04.03.2012, at 20:33, Tom Steinberg wrote:

> Hi Daniel,
> 
> As someone keen to see much more (i.e any) sharing of core code in the parliamentary transparency world, I definitely approve.
> 
> However, I would encourage you to do it as a broader parliamentary and political data thing, as legislation means starting with the hardest, least tractable data problem first.

Very good point. Lets re-phrase from "Open Legislation" to "Parliamentary informatics" stream or something like this, to include all kinds of parliamentary, legislative data.

Daniel

> 
> best,
> 
> Tom
> 
> On Friday, 2 March 2012, Daniel Dietrich wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> How do people feel about an Open-Legislation Stream at OKFestival[1] in Helsinki? I think it would be great to pull people together and collect ideas around best practice.
> 
> This could be seen as inline with the upcoming Conferences:
> 
> - Parliamentary Transparency and Networking, April 30 - May 2, Washington, D.C. [2]
> - Open Legislative Data Conference, Paris, July 6th-7th [3]
> 
> CFP for OKFestival will be out soon. I would like to know if people think we should organise a dedicated stream on "Parliamentary Transparency" in Helsinki.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> All the best
> Daniel
> 
> 
> 1. http://okfestival.org/
> 2. http://www.ndi.org/node/18544
> 3. http://blog.okfn.org/2012/01/25/open-legislative-data-conference-paris-july-6th-7th/
> 
> 
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