I'd like to see more than an Open Government. I'd like to see a web site developed where people read about issues of interest, learn about the benefits and drawbacks to upcoming policies at a centralized location, see how those policies affect budgets (federal, provincial, or municipal), and provide a simple voting mechanism to get a general sense of how agreeable people find the policy. More than that, it would be amazing if people could contribute to the discussion in a moderated fashion (with moderators selected at random, for random intervals of time, to avoid herd-mentality).<p>Something like this:<p>1. <a href="https://bitbucket.org/djarvis/world-politics/wiki/Interests%20Page" rel="nofollow">https://bitbucket.org/djarvis/world-politics/wiki/Interests%...</a><p>2. <a href="https://bitbucket.org/djarvis/world-politics/wiki/Policy%20Page" rel="nofollow">https://bitbucket.org/djarvis/world-politics/wiki/Policy%20P...</a><p>3. <a href="https://bitbucket.org/djarvis/world-politics/wiki/Debate%20Page" rel="nofollow">https://bitbucket.org/djarvis/world-politics/wiki/Debate%20P...</a><p>4. <a href="https://bitbucket.org/djarvis/world-politics/wiki/Supporting%20Page" rel="nofollow">https://bitbucket.org/djarvis/world-politics/wiki/Supporting...</a><p>For anyone curious about the project, check out:<p><a href="https://bitbucket.org/djarvis/world-politics/" rel="nofollow">https://bitbucket.org/djarvis/world-politics/</a>
for a split second there I read this as Papa Bear O'Reilly donating the book. During that split second my brain was almost fried trying to make sense of how he could have written a book titled "Open Government"
Kudos for a thoughtful gesture from O'Reilly.<p>It does make one wonder, has openness in Government increased under the current administration or not?<p>While the reality might remain elusive, my sense is, at a minimum, the <i>perception</i> of openness, has strengthened with the public.
This is such a nice gesture! However I have a (maybe small) concern: They use creative commons no derivative license. Doesn't that make forking pointless, if not a breach of terms?