I only found their reference to the code fest in March[1], do they have their license published for review? <br><br>I know that I keep beating this drum, but I really wish that governments would stop trying to write their own open data licenses (even by modifying relatively benign licenses) and JUST USE A VETTED LICENSE WRITTEN AND MAINTAINED BY PROFESSIONALS[2]. The only thing that governments do, by writing their own licenses, is punish those who care enough about open data licenses to actually read them and attempt to use them responsibly. <br>
<br>[1] <a href="http://www.waterloo.ca/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=3205">http://www.waterloo.ca/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=3205</a><br>[2] <a href="http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/">http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/</a><br>
<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Mike Boos <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike.boos@gmail.com" target="_blank">mike.boos@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The City of Waterloo is planning on releasing some open data under a<br>
UK Open Government-based license, and hosting a code-fest this<br>
Friday/Saturday. Details of the event are here:<br>
<a href="http://www.opendatawr.ca/2012/11/city-of-waterloo-codefest/" target="_blank">http://www.opendatawr.ca/2012/11/city-of-waterloo-codefest/</a> I've been<br>
part of a preview of the datasets, which include: city facilities,<br>
detailed park information, places of worship, bike lanes, roads,<br>
trails, historical street names, heritage buildings.<br>
<br>
Anyone else interested in attending the event to have a look at the<br>
data and discuss if any of it might be suitable for OSM?<br>
<br>
Mike<br>
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--<br>
Mike Boos, MASc.<br>
<a href="mailto:mike.boos@gmail.com">mike.boos@gmail.com</a><br>
<a href="http://real.uwaterloo.ca/~mboos" target="_blank">http://real.uwaterloo.ca/~mboos</a><br>
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