submit info on why floss is good - to Vancouver .. re: CBC article

[Scott Elcomb]

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 10:04 PM, ted leslie <tleslie-RBVUpeUoHUc at public.gmane.org> wrote:
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> The City of Vancouver is inviting the public to provide feedback on this motion.
>
> The motion calls for the city to endorse the principles of:
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>    * Making data open and accessible by sharing as much of it as possible while respecting privacy and security concerns.
>    * Adopting open standards for data, documents, maps and other media.
>    * Placing open source software on equal footing with "commercial systems."
>
>
> http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/19/tech-open-city-vancouver-standards-source-data-reimer.html
>
>
> I would love to email them, but it got me thinking about a previous thread on this list, can't remember specifically,
> but it had people on the list quickly trying to submit a pro-floss document to someone (to lazy to check back in email),



> so anyways, this is probably something where the TLUG should submit (as a whole?), and perhaps people can
> pull great stuff out of the last similar exercise?
>
> I am sure, given this is on CBC, and linux today . com
> many on the list will be striking up emails on it.
> Hopefully, they (politicians) are serious, and this can go somewhere.

Sounds like it's in progress:
  http://eaves.ca/2009/05/14/vancouver-enters-the-age-of-the-open-city/
  http://bit.ly/13e6a0

> Gonna go read some of the comments on the CBC forum at bottom if it, seems to be a popular article,
> well maybe not a popular as the Mulroney inquiry!
>
> it also says in the article (have not read it all but)
>
> "So far, she said, only a few other cities such as Washington, D.C., San Francisco and Toronto have started moving toward this kind of increased openness."
> What i miss? what is toronto doing on this front? moving maybe? but not actually there?

The writeup from David Eaves contains the motion (which was apparently
accepted today) and this quote:

"A number of us having been working hard getting this motion into
place. While several cities, like Portland, Washington DC, and
Toronto, have pursued some of the ideas outlined in this motion, none
have codified or been as comprehensive and explicit in their
intention.

I certainly see this motion as the cornerstone to transforming
Vancouver into a open city, or as my friend Surman puts it, a city
that thinks like the web."


On a related note, Open Web Vancouver 2009 will be running June 11th and 12th:
  http://www.openwebvancouver.ca/
  http://bit.ly/d7Hq6

Bet that'll be a great party.  :-)

Congrats to Vancouver!

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  Scott Elcomb
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