[Talk-ca] City of Waterloo Open Data codefest Saturday

[Richard Weait]

I only found their reference to the code fest in March[1], do they have
their license published for review?

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.

[1] http://www.waterloo.ca/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=3205
[2] http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/



On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Mike Boos <mike.boos at gmail.com> wrote:

> The City of Waterloo is planning on releasing some open data under a
> UK Open Government-based license, and hosting a code-fest this
> Friday/Saturday. Details of the event are here:
> http://www.opendatawr.ca/2012/11/city-of-waterloo-codefest/ I've been
> part of a preview of the datasets, which include: city facilities,
> detailed park information, places of worship, bike lanes, roads,
> trails, historical street names, heritage buildings.
>
> Anyone else interested in attending the event to have a look at the
> data and discuss if any of it might be suitable for OSM?
>
> Mike
>
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