[Open-Legislation] Open Legislation communication tools

Mon Dec 2 16:57:10 UTC 2013

The working group was ostensibly relaunched in October: http://blog.okfn.org/2013/10/15/open-legislation-working-group-relaunched-at-okcon/

If you apply to the second group, I would be surprised if you were not admitted. I don't think they hold very strongly to keeping it a closed group, more for defending against spam than anything else.

James

On 2013-12-02, at 11:40 AM, Francis Davey wrote:

> Thanks James, that is very useful. Note that the second group is not an open group.
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> Is there a "working group" in the usual sense, or is it this mailing list? 
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> Francis
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> 2013/12/2 James McKinney <james at opennorth.ca>
> It's not a question of content. This list is simply not the popular one for the topics of legal informatics and open legislation. Here are some that fill that role for me:
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> https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/legal-informatics-research-network
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pmo-network
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> I would focus on "what does the OKF Open Legislation Working Group want to do?" and center conversations around that. Maybe a more critical question is, does the Working Group have anyone to lead/do the work that the group chooses to focus on?
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> James
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> On 2013-12-02, at 11:08 AM, Francis Davey wrote:
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>> 2013/12/2 Clemens Wass <clemens at wass.at>
>> Is it a question of content or is the mailing list an outdated tool for discussions (sorry, no offence towards all those who have started this group; I know that many open source groups still rely on the good old mailing list, but just wanted to ask). Would you prefer a blog/wiki or rather a discussion group like in LinkedIn?
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>> Please let me know! Any proposals are highly welcome!
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>> Two thoughts: (i) you could provide a steer on what sort of things are going to be discussed/you want discussed; (ii) and also some idea what sort of people might be on list. 
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>> Mailing lists are like all such media a compromise. Too little traffic and they aren't much use, too much and we have to unsubscribe or face overfull inbobxes.
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>> At the moment it seems a bit write only, but that is something that could change.
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>> Francis Davey
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