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<p>Thanks Luke,</p>
<p>Will be great to have you on board, and great to have some help
gathering support.</p>
<p>I'm currently collating a draft for a response, and am hoping to
have a straw man to collaborate around by the end of this weekend.</p>
<p>At the moment I'm working in a Google Doc (to allow for easy
collection of review comments). But if someone knows something
better to use before we start collaborating, then I'm ready to
switch.</p>
<p>Cheers, Cameron<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 20/2/18 10:31 am, Luke Carbis wrote:<br>
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Putting my hand up to help. Any past proposals or responses to
government that have been submitted by Linux Australia would go a
long way, should this idea get buy-in / approval.
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<div class="">I’m confident I could collect a decent amount of
signatures from the Australian WordPress community.</div>
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<div class="">I have experience with submitting <i class="">petitions</i> to
the government in the past (read in parliament), which was
extremely difficult and impossible to do digitally (actual
papers must be submitted with hand written signatures, all sorts
of rules about how many signatures per page, where on the page
they can be written, etc.), but I’m not sure if that would apply
here?</div>
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<div class="">On 20 Feb 2018, at 8:38 am, Cameron Shorter
via linux-aus <<a
href="mailto:linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au" class=""
moz-do-not-send="true">linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au</a>>
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<div class="">The Australian Government has asked [1]
for ideas for their next Open Government National
Action Plan. I think we need to respond and call on
government agencies to learn how to collaborate more
effectively, and to learn from our methodologies
within the Open Source community.<br class="">
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I think that it has been great that governments around
the world have embraced very positive principles
around Open Government [2], but their implementation
has fallen short due to a lack of understanding of
what makes Open Communities work effectively.<br
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<br class="">
Selection of the term “open” (as in “open source”,
“open data”, “open government” ...) is a bit of a
marketing blunder. It focuses on “what” (free
software) and distracts us from the more important
questions of “how” and “why”. Governments have been
publishing "open" datasets but not considering the
more important aspects of collaboration and project
sustainability.<br class="">
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I propose that Linux Australia submit an open letter
recommending that the Australian government recognise
the limitations of current government collaboration
initiatives. We should provide practical guidance on
how government should address collaboration in the
upcoming Open Government National Action Plan.<br
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If others believe this is worth pursuing, I'm prepared
put in a significant amount of the work required to
get such a proposal written. (I have quite a bit of
material which I can draw upon already).<br class="">
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Questions:<br class="">
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* What's involved in getting buy-in/approval to write
something on behalf of Linux Australia?<br class="">
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* What process has been used in the past to
collaboratively craft responses from Linux Australia?<br
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* I suspect it would be valuable to collect signatures
from multiple organisations and individuals in order
to add weight to the open letter. Any suggestions on
ways to achieve this?<br class="">
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* Anyone else interested in helping crafting such as
response?<br class="">
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Who am I?<br class="">
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For those who don't know me, I've been involved in the
geospatial open source community for over a decade. Of
note, a few years ago I co-authored [3] an open letter
on behalf of open source community which resulted in
us successfully defending geospatial open standards.<br
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[1] <a
href="https://mailchi.mp/73feb7beca31/developing-australias-next-open-government-national-action-plan-2018-1107129?e=0429b6534e"
class="" moz-do-not-send="true">https://mailchi.mp/73feb7beca31/developing-australias-next-open-government-national-action-plan-2018-1107129?e=0429b6534e</a><br
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[2] <a
href="https://www.opengovpartnership.org/open-government-declaration"
class="" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.opengovpartnership.org/open-government-declaration</a><br
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[3] <a
href="https://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/06/03/2229245/gis-community-blocks-esris-geospatial-open-standard-rest-api"
class="" moz-do-not-send="true">https://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/06/03/2229245/gis-community-blocks-esris-geospatial-open-standard-rest-api</a><br
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-- <br class="">
Cameron Shorter<br class="">
Technology Demystifier, Learnosity<br class="">
Open Technologies Consultant<br class="">
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M +61 (0) 419 142 254<br class="">
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