[bigclean] Fwd: zbieranie: Slovenske a Ceske Open Data Sets

Wed Jul 13 20:59:14 UTC 2011

Hello Jindrich,

----- Original Message -----
> Thanks for further information on your event!
> 
> I have looked at your plans and discovered that the date for the event
> is not fixed, but it will be based on the feedback from registrants.
> You have proposed four options - four weekends starting at the 6th a
> 7th of August and ending at the 1st and 2nd of October.
> 
> I think if you can fix the date as soon as possible, we can ask others
> (i.e., ScraperWiki, Finnish participants of Big Clean, Open Knowledge
> Foundation) to join us in this "virtual" distributed event. Do you
> think it's possible to decide on the date up-front, some time before
> the actual event?
>
> If this will become an international event, we should decide on
> communication tools - e.g., IRC channel, Twitter hash-tag, maybe some
> video-conferencing. Also, if you'll write an announcement of the
> event, I'll be more than happy to forward it to the relevant mailing
> lists (e.g., okfn-cz) to spread the word more.

Personally, I have not enough time and resources to organize an international event, as
I wanted to have this as non-virtual possible and as targeted to Czech and Slovak republic as 
possible given the datasets in both countries are just few.

The personal touch including the common language will probably enable more people to participate
and share thoughts about what datasets is attractive for them and what is not. We hope that later on,
people will build on our work with events like big clean or hack day of aliancia Fair-Play and thus
we want to keep this hack fest technical and only about scraping sources that others feels are important
in the future for cleaning or building upon.

This said, I will be happy to participate and help in more international future events if they raise,
but I would like to keep this one more localized and targeted.

Regards,

> Cheers,
> 
> Jindrich Mynarz

-- 
Marek Mahut
 The Society for Open Information Technologies
 Spoločnosť pre otvorené informačné technológie
www.soit.sk

> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Marek Mahut <marek.mahut at soit.sk>
> wrote:
> > Hello list!
> >
> > I'm sorry for late response to this thread, I've been travelling.
> >
> > As you can already know from our Czech friends, we are preparing a
> > little technical
> > hack fest to create some solid datasets from Slovak and Czech
> > republic. We've
> > called the fest Open Scraper Challenge given we will be using
> > scraperwiki.com;
> > sadly, I had no idea about Big Clean prior to today.
> >
> >  https://opendata.soit.sk/index.php/OpenScraperChallenge2011Enroll
> >  (sadly in Slovak)
> >
> > Now, little bit about the event, we're enrolling right now - so
> > we're asking people
> > to collect data links, register with preferable time, location and
> > their scripting language.
> >
> > After we announce the date, we will try to bring people together in
> > hackerspaces in Brno, Bratislava and
> > Prague and spend a weekend hacking it off - I hope for about 20
> > people to attend, we don't plan to accommodate
> > more due to limited organizational resources.
> >
> > These raw data can be used later, during big cleans or other
> > hackdays.
> >
> > --
> > Marek Mahut
> >  The Society for Open Information Technologies
> >  Spoločnosť pre otvorené informačné technológie
> > www.soit.sk
> >
> >
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