First of all Julien: thanks for all your hard work and enthusiasm in taking on this task! :-)
I think it is pretty obvious that we would want to promote usage of open-source as well but I think this is something that is not the task of our community. We can recommend using open-source tools but the argument against opening data cannot ever be 'open-data is not possible because then we would have to use open-source software'. I think we should be very very clear that these two are different. An excel document with nice juicy open-data is still a good thing. But we can still recommend using open-source tools, we just have to be careful about how this is done in this document. Also: We should be careful about positioning the OSM project in Belgium as a project that wants to collect/incorporate open-data sets. We are about collecting data in the form of mapping the world, not about collecting open-geo-data sets. That was an argument for me to join everything with OKFN into one document. Met vriendelijke groeten, Best regards, Ben Abelshausen
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