[open-government] Local Open Government events

Thu Dec 2 18:23:48 UTC 2010

Pls add me in for events in Greece :)

all the best
pRo

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Daniel Dietrich <daniel.dietrich at okfn.org>wrote:

> Hi Julian and others,
>
>
> On 25.11.2010, at 23:06, Julian Tait wrote:
>
> > Hi Daniel,
> >
> > I think that the map and calendar are great, is the information collated
> or can people edit it themselves?
>
> right now it is Ton's Calendar but he showed interest to open it and add
> people as contributors. Would be great to find people to take care to add
> and update event information for a specific aerea or country.
>
> @Ton: please add me - I will take care for events in Germany.
>
> @all: Who wants to jump in?
>
> >
> > Ideally it would be good to see.
> > 'WHERE?' The map does this but having a list view would also be useful
> > "WHEN?' the calendar already does this although I can imagine that many
> local events like the Manchester and Sheffield are repeating so might get
> very busy.
> > 'WHAT?' What form the event takes.
> > 'WHO?' Contact details of the main contact or contacts
> > 'WHY?' Context as to why the events are run and link
> >
> > Sorry for all the 'Ws'. Potentially there could be a lot of information
> for one person to deal with so for groups to be able to edit it themselves
> would be useful.
>
> About the Ws: I absolutely agree that this makes sense.
>
> >
> > I think the mapping project is essential as it could give an indication
> as to the health and spread of the Open Data Community.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Julian
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 25 Nov 2010, at 20:26, Daniel Dietrich wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Jonathan and others,
> >>
> >> I think we ll agree that the ogd community needs to share information
> about events. With the ogd mapping* project we discussed some of this
> earlier here on the list. For the idea of the ogd mapping project I created
> this wikipage.
> >>
> >> http://wiki.okfn.org/wg/government/mapping
> >>
> >> Back to the calendar:
> >>
> >> As a start I just used Ton's great google calendar of ogd events and put
> it online here
> >>
> >> http://opengovernmentdata.org/calendar/
> >>
> >> this is - of course - far a way from a good solution.
> >>
> >> I would recommend to keep things simple. So I opt to start with a single
> calendar (we can still separate into different calendars later) and to use a
> simple technology that a lot of people are familiar with, such as google
> calendar.
> >>
> >> If people agree I would propose we use Ton's calendar as a starting
> point. I think Jonathan's proposal is good to try to find one or more
> persons that would take care of adding and updating events from their
> countries / regions.
> >>
> >> So we would need this calendar to become editable for more people. @Ton
> whats your opinion on this?
> >>
> >> And: what do others think? Also about the mapping project itself?
> >>
> >> Best regards
> >> Daniel
> >>
> >
>
>
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