[OSM-talk-be] Requests to politicians and elections : vrije software pact.

[Nicolas Pettiaux]

The address of Steven was wrong. I resend so you can contact him if you want.

Regards,

Nicolas

2010/5/4 Nicolas Pettiaux <nicolas at pettiaux.be>:
> 2010/4/20 Kenny Knecht <kenny.knecht at gmail.com>:
>
>> May be it is a nice moment to start bugging politicians with kind requests
>> to open up the geographical databases for every-one in this country?
>
> good point.
>
> The interest of some local people (aka : the citizens who live or like
> the commune) plus the news published in the newspaper can well support
> this query.
>
> As said to the list, I have written to IGN/NGI asking that they open
> their data like the the UK Ordnance survey did last month. So far no
> answer. Other people like all of you on this list can write to IGN
> too, and then we can again ask some politicians for their support.
>
> I plan to contact the elected politicians who have signed the "pacte
> du logiciel libre" (see http://candidats.be) before the last election.
> Indeed this pact ask for the use of free software and
>
> Now that we know we'll have elections soon, I call all of you to come
> and help on candidats.be, especially in Vlaams. We have a team for the
> south/frenspeaking part but Steven feels alone for the Vlaanderen.
>
> In the "pact" (zie
> http://candidatsbe.april.org/index.php?pages/Het-vrije-software-pact)
> we'll add a paragraph concerning the request for public data.
>
> Who's joining ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nicolas
>
> --
> Nicolas Pettiaux
>



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