[CivicAccess-discuss] Guerilla Open Access

[Jennifer Bell]

Um, it's ibelieveinopen.ca.  Open.  :-)  

And yes, I will be sharing the postal codes that the site legally collects. Although, as people have pointed out, it will inevitably be an incomplete set.

Goodness, I don't think this list has seen so much traffic in ages...

Jennifer

--- On Tue, 9/23/08, Robin Millette <robin at millette.info> wrote:

> From: Robin Millette <robin at millette.info>
> Subject: Re: [CivicAccess-discuss] Guerilla Open Access
> To: civicaccess-discuss at civicaccess.ca
> Received: Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 4:09 PM
> Le Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:54:11 -0400,
> "Tracey P. Lauriault" <tlauriau at gmail.com>
> a écrit :
> 
> > Hey Heather!
> > 
> > ibelieveincanada.ca initiative is partially inspired
> by civicaccess.ca and
> > many other initiatives primarily in the US, so keep
> the button!  The person
> > who developed the initiative is a list member of
> civicaccess.ca but it is
> > not a civicaccess.ca led project.
> 
> Why is http://ibelieveincanada.ca/ showing its head in this
> discussion? Aside from encouraging people to show what they
> believe in (Openness), they're also building a database
> of postal codes to district relationships without infringing
> any copyright and they're going to share this data.
> 
> Daniel's project is also something I understand fully,
> having done the same thing last year.
> 
> Finally, if you have 3000$ you can have unlimited access to
> the http://www.makethechange.ca/ web service to provide the
> same postal code to district relationship.
> 
> Of course, we (on this list, I would assume) all want this
> data (and so much more!) to be equally accessible. At least
> this multiprong approach has the advantage of putting
> pressure on many sides of the equation.
> 
> P.S.: I'll be adding links (or data, when it becomes
> available) from http://cancan.waglo.com/ to
> http://ibelieveincanada.ca/ and as many sources as I can
> find in the short term. Let me know if you have any
> suggestions.
> 
> -- 
> Robin Millette
> http://rym.waglo.com/
> http://identi.ca/millette
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