[ddj] Fwd: Hello Open Data Dayers from London

Sat Dec 3 21:07:15 UTC 2011

Greetings from Random Hacks of Kindness in Oxford!

We're well into our hacks -  see  http://wiki.rhok.org/RHoK_4.0_-_Oxford

Michael

On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org>wrote:

> Hi Antigoni,
>
> Would be really cool to do something similar in Athens. How about we try
> and find some local coders (ones that can speak Greek are going to be a
> bonus!) and we can co-promote!
>
> Is there a Hacks / Hackers group in Athens?
>
> Lucy
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 5:18 PM, antigoni katsadima <akatsadima at yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Lucy
>> Nice to have a look at your initiatives.
>> As this is sth new, how about organizing sth similar in Athens? I could
>> take on its promotion.
>> Have a nice week-end
>> antigoni
>>
>>   ------------------------------
>> *From:* Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org>
>> *To:* List about Data Driven Journalism and Open Data in Journalism. <
>> data-driven-journalism at lists.okfn.org>
>> *Sent:* Saturday, December 3, 2011 2:30 PM
>> *Subject:* [ddj] Fwd: Hello Open Data Dayers from London
>>
>> Good morning and welcome to Open Data Day!
>>
>> The team from London welcomes you to 'Seize the (Data) Day'. We're online
>> making open data happen and offering help with scraping, wrangling and much
>> data fun.
>>
>>  * The CKAN team data wrangling and willing to scrape, wrangle and mould
>> data to get the stuff you need to work on and load it into the DataHub
>>
>> The day is totally flexible, please *feel free to spread the offer to
>> journalists, CSOs and interested wranglers*!
>>
>> Add the datasets you're working on to <http://goog_1366767256>*theDataHub's Open
>> Data Day group <http://thedatahub.org/group/open-data-day>! *Tag with
>> 'scraping-help' or the name of the challenge you're working on, e.g. 'IATI'
>> *. *TheDataHub.org is the open source data hub powering data.gov.uk and
>> numerous other government data portals online.
>>
>> Then, send us the URL to your dataset by:
>>
>> * Dropping us an email via this list
>> * Tweeting us using the #odhdLDN hashtag
>> * Joining us on IRC.freenode.net (rooms #okfn (for IATI), #openspending
>> (for OpenSpending), #ckan (for datawrangling)
>>
>> We will be hanging out and tracking progress on this etherpad:
>> http://ckan.okfnpad.org/opendataday - add yourself to the 'attending'
>> list and let us know what you are working on!
>>
>> Other teams on the day are working on:
>>
>> * the IATI challenges <http://www.aidinfolabs.org/archives/773>
>> * the OpenSpending <http://www.opendataday.org/wiki/OpenSpending> challenges
>> - get hold of your local data and convert it into the OpenSpending format
>> ready to go into OpenSpending.
>>
>> Happy wrangling,
>>
>> Lucy & Ira
>>
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>> Lucy Chambers
>> Community Coordinator
>> Open Knowledge Foundation
>> http://okfn.org/
>> Skype: lucyfediachambers
>>
>>
>>
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