Libertic is a non profit promoting Open data in France. Its members are following worldwide news on these topics and communicate via microblogging (https://twitter.com/LiberTIC ) and their blog (http://libertic.wordpress.com) on the evolution of local data opening.
After lobbying in favor of Open data in their city of Nantes, Libertic is now involved in the city open data process and animate the community of data reusers by organizing local events.