[wdmmg-discuss] Next steps with ask.wheredoesmymoneygo.org

[Jonathan Gray]

Thayer: Great! Not sure what current plans are for this yet, but will
let you know as soon as we have a firm timeline!

Lisa: perhaps you could do first pass at inviting gov folk that you've
been in touch with re: WDMMG (e.g. HMT) to join Ask.WDMMG community
(no formal commitments) and we could take it from there? Also perhaps
could be good to ask OPSI for input -- as they are good at knowing who
to ask for what, and how? ;-)

All the best,

Jonathan

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Thayer Prime <thayer at thayerprime.com> wrote:
>> Thayer: would data.gov.uk be up for helping with this? (E.g. helping
>> to get UK gov folks on board, blogging, etc.)
>
> Absolutely.  Do you have a time line so I can see where it would fit
> in current priorities, and ensure when you're ready to hit the big pr
> button we're all chatting about it at the same time?
>
> Have you looked at approaching events to do speaking gigs too?  I may
> be able to help with that regards leads to events & intros.
>
> Kindest
>
> Thayer
>
> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
>> Amazing work with getting ask.wheredoesmymoneygo.org up and running!
>>
>> In terms of building up a community around this (which will be a key
>> part of making this a truly valuable ancillary service), suggest we:
>>
>>  - invite UK government folks (HMT, OPSI, data.gov.uk), journalists,
>> researchers, NGOs, etc to join the site
>>  - create a 'community' page to list some key representatives from
>> these fields so users have a sense of the expertise behind the site
>>  - do a big announce (blog/tweet etc) -- and a press release if there
>> is widespread enough buy-in to make it newsworthy
>>
>> Also -- very trivial thing -- but is it easy to customise
>> design/branding to give same visual identity with main WDMMG site?
>>
>> Thayer: would data.gov.uk be up for helping with this? (E.g. helping
>> to get UK gov folks on board, blogging, etc.)
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Gray
>>
>> Community Coordinator
>> The Open Knowledge Foundation
>> http://blog.okfn.org
>>
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>>
>



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