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Whilst I have no insider knowledge, I highly doubt GitHub has any desire to expand outside of the development community.
by kondro 13y ago
Whilst I have no insider knowledge, I highly doubt GitHub has any desire to expand outside of the development community.
- jmduke 13y agoThey already have expanded outside of the development community. https://github.com/Chicago https://github.com/Chicago
- yellowbkpk 13y agoI suggested the City of Chicago use Github because it is the only place to put open data that both (a) allows contributions back to the dataset (pull requests) and (b) allows for community feedback (issues and comments). It's by no means ideal (the building footprints dataset is hidden behind a 2GB compressed JSON blob) but it's still useful and a step in the right direction. It's still aimed squarely at developers using the data, though. Asking a "normal citizen" to submit a pull request is still a pretty big ask.