[Geodata] Fwd: [Geowanking] Interesting article on Open Data (crossposted)

[Schuyler Erle]

Bears some thinking about, esp. w/r/t OAM. In a nutshell, posting your
code on Sourceforge is a very different thing from building a F/OSS
dev community; Nat asserts the same is true for data. Great read.

SDE

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Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 16:09:47 -0500
From: Ian Turton <ijturton at gmail.com>
To: Geowanking <Geowanking at geowanking.org>
Subject: [Geowanking] Interesting article on Open Data

Rethinking Open Data:Lessons learned from the Open Data front lines by
Nat Torkington
http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/02/rethinking-open-data.html

apparently you can build an open data site and users will not come!

Ian

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