[backstage] Free that data / Power of Information Task Force report

2009-02-01 Thread Tom Loosemore
If you want better access to Government data, then get commenting on the Power of Information TaskForce report here http://talk.dius.gov.uk/poit/ The stuff about freeing up Ordinance Survey geospatial data is here: http://talk.dius.gov.uk/poit/2009/01/trading-funds/ On this one, your comments

Re: [backstage] free software from ground up home-grown alternative to AIR/Silverlight

2009-02-01 Thread Fearghas McKay
On 1 Feb 2009, at 11:23, Ant Miller wrote: But forgive my utter ignorance, but since there is a layer of Google Web Kit underpinning this, doesn't that make it's openess a bit less open? errr WebKit is not a Google engine - it has been open sourced out of Apple, having come out of

Re: [backstage] free software from ground up home-grown alternative to AIR/Silverlight

2009-02-01 Thread Ant Miller
Eh? Oops, sorry. I was getting that info from the Advogato: Pyjamas page here: http://www.advogato.org/article/981.html Quote: *who - bbb..back up a bit: what's pyjamas? based on google webkit, pyjamas is a cross-browser _web_ application development API.* /Quote Confused now... a On

Re: [backstage] free software from ground up home-grown alternative to AIR/Silverlight

2009-02-01 Thread Andy
2009/2/1 Ant Miller ant.mil...@gmail.com: based on google webkit, pyjamas is a cross-browser _web_ application development API. /Quote Probably a typo, It means Google Web Toolkit, http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/ (which is where the words Google webkit links to), licensed under Apache