[OpenSpending] Moving discussion to http://discuss.okfn.org

Sat Mar 21 17:01:33 UTC 2015

Agree with Tryggvi

“Open” being redefined as within an “instance running for discussions” seems somewhat like the walled garden approach the OKFN used to recognise as badly flawed.

> On 21 Mar 02015, at 16:33, Tryggvi Björgvinsson <tryggvi.bjorgvinsson at okfn.org> wrote:
> 
> I'm actually opposed to this.
> 
> In my mind, OpenSpending is separate from Open Knowledge, even if Open Knowledge is the initiator and currently the biggest supporter of the project and provides all of the infrastructure. I would like others to be able to support OpenSpending as much (or even more).
> 
> I know the email list is at an @lists.okfn.org address, but I still feel that it's a more independent approach to continue to use the mailing list than having the discussion take place in a special category on an Open Knowledge discussion forum. In my mind, we'd make the project even more dependent on Open Knowledge than it has to be.
> 
> This might be weird coming from me, but this is my personal opinion (disclaimer: I work for Open Knowledge).
> 
> /Tryggvi
> 
> On lau 21.mar 2015 13:29, Rufus Pollock wrote:
>> I strongly second this suggestion.
>> 
>> What do others think?
>> 
>> Rufus
>> 
>> On 8 March 2015 at 12:52, Paul Walsh <paulywalsh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Open Knowledge has a discourse instance running for discussions. How about moving this list onto there, so we do not need to follow multiple sources of information?
>> 
>> Here is the Open Spending category: http://discuss.okfn.org/category/openspending
>> 
>> Any thoughts on this?
>> 
>> Paul
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