Open Government Summit

(Updated: fixed the links. Sorry! Having one of those weeks --Nat) Recently a group of 30 people who work towards open government met at the O'Reilly Campus in Sebastopol. I love what they came up with. Carl Malamud was the convenor, so I asked him whether anyone had written up what transpired. Here's his list of web sites about the meeting, and some thoughts on what they came up with:

Here is my summary page and the convocation. Dave Orban put together a web site. Somebody else put together a google group. Lessig, Karl Fogel, and Josh Tauberer all had Wikis going, which we consolidated here. Aaron Swartz whipped up a mailing list and a logo.

We also encouraged the attendees to pour whatever meaning they wished into the principles, providing a "gloss" on the basic pieces. You'll see links under each of the words, plus here are some blog reports:

• John Geraci
• Ethan Zuckerman
• TechPresident
• (new@200712121840) Bradley Horowitz
• (new@200712121840) Joseph Lorenzo Hall

BTW, FWIW, I view the low number of words in the basic principles as a definite feature ... several prominent techies were pretty impressed that we were able to boil this down to a set of basic concepts. Very much like writing legislation or an Internet standard, less is always better than more.