Sorry for the lack of posts this week, blog was offline for a bit. (For geeks out there, I now have a company managing my blog for me and we we’re moving from a shared hosting service to a virtual private server – I should have less down time in the future – very excited). [...]
Census Update and other chuckles
Bugzilla – progress made and new thoughts
A few weeks ago I published a post entitled Some Thoughts on Improving Bugzilla. The post got a fair bit a traction and received a large number of supportive comments. But what was best, about the post, about open source, about Mozilla, is that it drew me into a serious of conversations with people who [...]
Are you a Public Servant? What are your Open Data Challenges?
A number of governments have begun to initiate open data and open government strategies. With more governments moving in this direction a growing number of public servants are beginning to understand the issues, obstacles, challenges and opportunities surrounding open data and open government. Indeed, these challenges are why many of these public servants frequent this [...]
Breaking: A private members bill for reinstating long-form census to be announced today at 11am
This is an Eaves.ca exclusive. On the matter of a issue that just won’t go away, today the Liberal’s will be tabling a private members bill to reinstate the Long-Form Census today at 11am EST. Post below is a copy of the press release and the proposed bill. I suspect there will be more on [...]
Creating effective open government portals
In the past few years a number of governments have launched open data portals. These sites, like www.data.gov or data.vancouver.ca share data – in machine readable formats (e.g. that you can play with on your computer) that government agencies collect. Increasingly, people approach me and ask: what makes for a good open data portal? Great [...]
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