[Fsfe-ie] Ahoy IFSOers

Luke Murphy lukewm at riseup.net
Sat Feb 4 01:29:38 CET 2017


Oh, this one is up and running!

    https://www.asktheeu.org/en/search/ireland/all

Good stuff there. Any others?

Sorry for the list noise ;)

Luke

On 04.02.2017 00:19, Luke Murphy wrote:
> Hey Ben,
> 
> Yes, it was very cool to meet you all. Free on the 9th, that would suit
> just fine. Hope we can all keep it going ;)
> 
> Regarding the 'Public Money, Public Code' campaign meeting, here is what
> I learned:  the campaign is in 'stealth mode' until an official release
> in May/June 2017 because they would first like to:
> 
>   1) Make a motivational, multilingual video.
>   2) Gather as much information through FOI and related methods
>      to support the cases across Europe. Anything goes!
>   3) Make a modern, multilingual website.
> 
> There is a career politician from the pirate party behind this, so she
> is driving the public relations aspect. Check out the archives and
> future work via the mailing list. It's an open campaign and all are welcome:
> 
>     https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/pm-campaign-team
> 
> They expect the campaign to run for 2 years or so. Of course, this
> doesn't mean we can't get moving now. In fact, we can do a lot to help
> in the research. We could:
> 
>   1) Document who is who in the Irish governmental software scene.
>      What are the moving parts and who is who. Draw out the map.
>   2) Document how we write a good FOI. What do we even ask?
>      Who to send it to and what to expect? What to do with the results?
> 
> Can anyone else think of other easy things to start off with? Maybe we
> could start to brainstorm on or off list on some concrete, short term
> goals we'd like to achieve?
> 
> Regarding point 2, the Germans have FragDenStaat:
> 
>     https://fragdenstaat.de/
> 
> It makes it really easy to submit an FOI request. Does Ireland have one
> of these? If not, let's make this! It's a low hanging fruit and can
> really raise awareness. It will make it more convenient to drive this
> campaign forward when we can just fire these things off.
> 
> We could roll our own or use:
> 
>     http://alaveteli.org/
> 
> Brain dump over and out!
> 
> Best,
> 
> Luke
> 
> On 03.02.2017 20:58, Ben North wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks, everyone, for attending our re-invigoration meeting last night. 
>> Good turn-out and good to see some new faces.  That was the first
>> Thursday of the month; as it turns out I can't make the matching day in
>> March (2nd) but we could go for 9th March if that suits people?  Or are
>> other days of the week better?  It would be good to keep our new-found
>> momentum going, so please say (replying just to me if you want to avoid
>> list clutter) which days suit you.
>>
>> Ben.
>>
>> On 30 January 2017 at 22:10, Ben North <ben at redfrontdoor.org
>> <mailto:ben at redfrontdoor.org>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi Luke,
>>
>>         I'll be in Dublin from Tuesday until Friday this week. Anyone
>>         around?
>>
>>
>>     OK, great.  Let's declare an IFSO meeting this coming Thursday (2nd
>>     Feb), at 8pm in the Long Stone pub, Townsend Street, Dublin.
>>
>>     https://longstonepub.com/
>>
>>     All welcome!
>>
>>     Ben.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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