[bigclean] [euopendata] Idea: screen scraping sprint -> 19.3.2011

[james burke]

Hey Jonathan,

i will see if i can rouse up support for a bigclean over here in NL too.

James

www.hackdeoverheid.nl

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>wrote:

> So action items:
>
>  (i) Set up basic thebigclean.org wordpress site (1-2 hours)
>  (ii) Launch site with blog post and publicise (1 hour)
>  (iii) See if we can find other partners in other European cities to
> take part/participate - if not in March, then in May/June
>
> If anyone on the list has a spare hour or so to help with (i) it would
> be *very* much appreciated! ;-)
>
> J.
>
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Antti "Jogi" Poikola
> <antti.poikola at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Some months ago I send this list an idea about screen scraping day. The
> > global event is still planned, but as many of us are quite busy right now
> we
> > decided to start with small and organise 19th March a twin event in two
> > cities Prague (Czech) and Jyväskylä (Finland). I will organise small
> "five
> > guys and pizza" -type of event in Jyväskylä and Jindřich Mynarz will make
> a
> > bit bigger one in Prague.
> >
> > The idea is to have this as a preparatory event so that in may or june we
> > could organise really nice global screen scraping day. For now we would
> need
> > some helping hand in setting a wordpress blog... OKF has reserved the
> > domain  bigclean.org
> >
> > Also if some other cities would like to join in on 19th of March, you are
> > more than wellcome.
> >
> > BR, Antti "Jogi" Poikola
> >
> > http://blog.okfn.org/2010/11/10/announcing-the-big-clean-spring-2011/
> >
> > On 1 October 2010 13:50, Antti Poikola <antti.poikola at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>  Hi people,
> >>
> >> I just got an idea that we could organize maybe even global screen
> >> scraping day/camp/sprint with the idea to create open API:s to
> government
> >> data by programming screen scrapers to existing public, but technically
> not
> >> open data sources?
> >>
> >> So far just a vague idea... anybody interested to brainstorm it further?
> >>
> >> -Jogi
> >
> >
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