Sure, but we should avoid talking about open access as a self-evidently beneficial end rather than a means to make things that benefit society. Coming from a an

Sure, but we should avoid talking about open access as a self-evidently beneficial end rather than a means to make things that benefit society. Coming from a an academic library background, I saw numerous open access arguments fall flat in front of decision makers because their champions didn't have any existing analog to point at, and hadn't bothered to consider concrete ways an inaccessible data set stopped them from improving society. While open data is very important to me, personally, as someone who knows how to use raw data to do cool things, I'll be able to connect a lot of the loose wires I see sticking out of the for the benefit of humanity angle once we start making genuinely end-user-friendly applications that require neither payment nor understanding python module dependencies to install. I've got some sketches kicking around but I'm tapped for time for at least a couple of months.