[open-government] Open Data hackathon updates

Wed Dec 1 20:00:32 UTC 2010

Hi David, all,

That sounds very good.
Here in our city (Enschede, Netherlands), the civil servants we have been
working with for the local event have ensured the release of a number of
data sets for the event, from geo stuff like house numbers, neighbourhoods
and districts, to polling stations, mail box locations, bus stops,
businesses and their activities, and soil quality/pollution. So the event is
triggering the first wave of data sets here, which I think is already a good
result. To help stimulate that, I have offered the city council to spend a
number of days of my time, in exchange for more data sets being opened up.
There's a good chance they will take me up on the offer.

We here in Enschede don't think we will get a lot done this Saturday, and we
will only have a handful of people most likely. But it's a promising start
bringing local people interested in this together for the first time, and we
will do on-line presentations of whatever we do build. We already have set
up a video exchange with the team in Helsinki Finland to talk about results
at the end of the day.

Will go through your ideas, so we maybe can jumpstart some of the activities
on Saturday.

best,
Ton

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2010/12/1 David Eaves <david at eaves.ca>

>  Hello everyone interested in the Opendata hackathon.
>
> 1. I've blogged a couple of ideas (here<http://eaves.ca/2010/12/01/international-open-data-hackathon-irc-channel-and-project-ideas/>and
> here<http://eaves.ca/2010/12/01/sunlight-foundation-and-the-international-opendata-hackathon/>)
> that people can hack on this Saturday. Again, I think the localizing other
> projects will be the easiest way to get some quick wins. (Hope to move this
> to the wiki shortly)
>
> 2. I'm trying to find ways to encourage non-developers to participate by
> describing ways they can contribute to projects (hope to move this to the
> wiki shortly) (see blog posts above)
>
> 3. Created an IRC chat room: irc.oftc.net #odhd
>
> Somethings I'm thinking about:
>
> 1) ensuring people demo the ideas that they are working on, or even better,
> complete
>
> 2) Getting feedback after the day to learn:
> a) did people have fun
> b) were they able to raise awareness/build community
> c) do they want to do it again
> d) what could we do better/build on our successes
>
> Okay, focused on Saturday 100% now... so excited.
>
>
>
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