[ddj] Procurement Hack Day - May 2 in BXL - and another reason to attend DataHarvest

[Anders Pedersen]

Hi Nicolas,

Great! Thanks for sharing this. We'll make sure to share the outcomes incl.
Croatia.

If any of you would like to get involved in the Procurement Hack
Day<http://procurement-hack.eventbrite.com/#>,
but cannot make it to Brussels fear not.

Get in touch via mail or twitter (#dataharvest13 for event or
@openspending). Look forward to be chewing through European contracts with
many of you next week!

Enjoy the weekend,
Anders


On 26 April 2013 03:49, Nicolas Kayser-Bril <hi at nkb.fr> wrote:

> Hi Anders,
>
> I won't be in Brussels, but I coded a small scraper of public procurements
> in Croatia last Wednesday as I was in a training with journalists from the
> region. This is my welcome gift for Croatia's entry into the Union :)
>
> I've polished it a bit this morning, feel free to build on it as needed
> and maybe you can make use of it on May 2.
>
> It's here: https://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/hr_procurements/
>
> Nicolas Kayser-Bril
> --
> CEO and co-founder at Journalism++ <http://jplusplus.org> • @nicolaskb •
>  Personal website nkb.fr <http://nkb.fr/?m> • Paris: +336 50 57 53 80 •
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>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Anders Pedersen <
> anders.pedersen at okfn.org> wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> On May 2 OpenSpending will be organising a Hack Day in Brussels on
>> procurement data [1].
>>
>> At the Hack Day we'll be asking: Can we use EU procurement data to find
>> better ways to tell stories about private contractors and government
>> spending?
>>
>> We want to build tools helping citizens to answer questions like
>> (examples):
>> - which contractors benefit from outsourcing of portuguese municipal
>> services and
>> - does the German government actually contract with the "small and medium
>> sized businesses" it loves to talk about, or does it actually prefer the
>> "big guys"?
>>
>> A recent blog post on OpenSpending[2] takes a closer look at reasons why
>> procurement data should be of interest to journalists.
>>
>> We hope that activists, journalists and civic coders will join the (free)
>> Hack Day.
>>
>> To sum up here are the activities next week in Brussels:
>> 2 May: Hack Day on Procurement [1]
>> 3-4 May: DataHarvest [3] - OpenSpending will take part in the J-Lab track
>> and the number crunching of EU farm subsidies. Full programme available
>> here [4].
>>
>> All for now,
>> Anders
>>
>> [1] http://procurement-hack.eventbrite.com/#
>> [2] http://openspending.org/blog/2013/04/09/procurement-hack-day.html
>> [3] http://www.journalismfund.eu/dataharvest13
>> [4] http://www.journalismfund.eu/programme
>>
>> --
>> Anders Pedersen
>> Community Coordinator
>> OpenSpending
>> Open Knowledge Foundation
>> Twitter: @anpe
>> Skype: anpehej
>>
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