[CivicAccess-discuss] Guerilla Open Access

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

The list gets busy during election periods Jenn and other campaigns.

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Jennifer Bell <jenniferlianne at yahoo.ca>wrote:

> 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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