James O'Malley writes a newsletter on UK policy, transport, data, and AI in government.
Commenters point to his posts on liberating the Postcode Address File and TfL data, with one noting a full article beats a blogspam repost.
This reminds me of [0], basically just inviting the most interesting people I know (also transitively the most interesting people they know), and just getting to meet people.
I would really like to do this, but half the most interesting people I know are PhD professors I rant with because I'm next to them in a lab. Maybe once my network gets bigger.
But I would still like to know more about how you do this, as other people doing this accidentally made me some good friendships, and I'd like to repay this favor to others
[0] https://takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/this-might-be-oversharing
So it turns out that James O'Malley has written a post that addresses all the details of this already (of course), including several options for how it could be done affordably. https://takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/heres-the-plan-to-actually-liberate
Blogspam. URL should be changed to this, it's the full article https://takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/its-crazy-how-much-transport-for
And it was actually posted here back then https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38013668 (71 comments)
Here are a couple examples: https://takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/build-gemini-build