[epsi-coord] Weekly report :)

Mon Apr 11 10:07:05 BST 2011

Hi Jonathan,

This is the full text of the invitation for the event, including list of
confirmed participants:

Dear all

Please join us for the Data Harvest Festival in May in Brussels – from 5th
to 8th of May.

This time we combine five different groups:

Hack/Hackers

Farmsubsidy.org

Fishsubsidy.org

Specialist in Data Driven Journalism in Europe, normally regarding
themselves as CAR-journalists

Wobbing.eu (FOI-specialists)

Look at the draft program – below in this mail, and please confirm that you
can join and do the suggested presentation/workshop, where I have included
your name.

We hope you can get travel/accommodation covered by your company – else we
will try to solve it.

Please also look at the list of participants – below program. If you think
others should join, please contact them and me to get them on the list. Be
aware we have limited room for participants and we can’t make an open
invitation.

Please write to Ides Debruyne ides.debruyne at fondspascaldecroos.org to
confirm your participation and also if you have any request. Or write to me
with request to the program or for proposing more participants.

Looking forward to see you.

Best

Brigitte Alfter and Nils Mulvad

*Program*

Thursday 5th May – starting at 11 am:

11-12:

Access to European farm data. Status and Strategy after closing down EU Farm
Subsidy Data. Discussion: Setting up the principles for fighting for the
data in closed countries. Speakers Jack Thurston and Brigitte Alfter.

Workshop after this session dividing the tasks to be done this time in
Brussels.

12.15-13.15:

Analysing Farm Subsidy data. We have data from Denmark, Sweden, Hungary and
Czech Republic now – we hope to get more before this meeting. Presentation
of data by Nils Mulvad. Planning the analysis to be done in Brussels.
Dividing tasks. Journalists can present wishes and get help to the analysis.

13.15-14.15: Lunch

14.15-15.15:

Finding and analysing European data. What is there to get right now besides
fish and farm subsidy. Overview of sources and what they can be used for in
stories. Presentation of data by Simon Rogers, Guardian and Nils Mulvad.
Planning the analysis to be done in Brussels. Dividing tasks. Journalists
can present wishes and get help to the analysis.

Google Fusion. How to use Google Fusion for simple and advanced
presentation. Hands-on training. Part 1: Getting the data into Fusion. Tommy
Kaas, Kaas & Mulvad

15.30-16.30:

The Fish - they are gone. Looking into Fish subsidy data. How to analyse and
present them. A workshop will help journalists looking into data on their
own country. Presentation of data by Nils Mulvad. Together we plan the
analysis to be done in Brussels.

Google Fusion. How to use Google Fusion for simple and advanced
presentation. Hands-on training. Part 2: Using maps. Tommy Kaas, Kaas &
Mulvad

16.45-17.45:

Workshop on data-analysis. Help by Sebastian Mondial and Nils Mulvad.

Workshop on writing applications for farm subsidy data. Help by Brigitte
Alfter and Jack Thurston.

Google Fusion. How to use Google Fusion for simple and advanced
presentation. Hands-on training. Part 3: Merge, aggregate – using timelines,
storylines and other visualisation. Simon Rogers, Guardian, and Tommy Kaas,
Kaas & Mulvad

19.30

Dinner

Friday 6th May – starting at 9 am:

9-10:

Presenting data on the web. Experiences and strategies in making interactive
graphics. Speakers Simon Rogers, Guardian, John Bones, VG, and Tommy Kaas,
Kaas & Mulvad. Participants can announce to do a presentation on 5 minutes.
We might repeat this if we have many responses. Or combine more to
Structural Funds.

Open Data. Status and strategy for using PSI-directive to get data for the
European public. Lessons to learn from country to country. Sharing tactics.
Prepare a short presentation. Moderators Wilhelm Mecklenburg and Staffan
Dahllöf.

10.30 – 11.30

Privacy becoming a big issue. Besides the ECJ-ruling on farm subsidies we
have Bavarian Lager and the Lisbon treaty. Discussion on what to expect and
how to react now. Moderator: Staffan Dahllöf

Google Fusion. How to use Google Fusion for simple and advanced
presentation. Hands-on training. Part 2: Using maps. Tommy Kaas, Kaas &
Mulvad

Workshop on writing applications for farm subsidy data.

12 – 13

Lost and won in the latest year in wobbing. Status of the current countries
on getting data and documents. Moderator: Staffan Dahllöf. Prepare a short
presentation for this in your country. Discussion on main trends. What to be
aware of.

Workshop on data-analysis.

Workshop on writing applications for farm subsidy data.

13-14 Lunch

14-15:

Press meeting on the result of analysing farm subsidies and fish subsidies.
And on judging the countries openness. Speakers Jack, Brigitte and Nils.

Continue discussion on lost and won in the latest year in wobbing.
Discussion on main trends. What to be aware of. Moderator:  Staffan Dahllöf

15.30-16.30:

Wobbing by subject: European Medicines Agency, contracts, fine dust
lobbying, security and others. This workshop covers:

a.       Who do what?

b.      Teaming up and sharing tactics.

Moderator: Staffan Dahllöf

European Structural Funds. How to get data, analyse and present it. Cynthia
O’Murchu, Financial Times and AnnemarieCumiskey, freelance.

16-17:

Google Fusion. How to use Google Fusion for simple and advanced
presentation. Hands-on training. Part 3: Merge, aggregate – using timelines,
storylines and other visualisation. Simon Rogers, Guardian, and Tommy Kaas,
Kaas & Mulvad

Planning meeting for fish subsidy project – how to continue. Moderator Jack
Thurston.

16.30 – 17.30:

Continue workshop on wobbing by subject

17-18:

Planning meeting for farm subsidy project – how to continue. Moderator
Brigitte Alfter.

19.30:

Dinner

Saturday 7th May – starting at 9 am:

9-10:

Wobbing sum-up organizing: What should Euro-wobbers 2012 focus on?
Activities in the meantime? Who does what.  Moderator Staffan Dahllöf.

10.30-11.30:

New strategies for CAR-people. Working together journalists and programmers.
Experiences. Paul Radu, Smari McCarthy of Icelandic Media and Stefan
Marsiske of Hackers Space.

12.00-13.00:

Textmining. Status, methods  and projects on Wikileaks and other stuff.
Speakers: Helena Bengtsson, Alf Endre Magnusson and John Bones.

13-14 Lunch

14-15:

Screen scrapers. How to extract data from websites. Examples, methods and
strategies. Scraper Wiki, Kapow, Python. Speakers: Richard Pope, Nils Mulvad

15.30 -16.30:

Crowdsourcing in investigative journalism on the web. Heather Brook and
others.

17-18:

Forming the European network on Data Driven Journalism

19.30 Dinner

List of participants:

name

first name

country

Teugels

Marleen

Belgium

freelance

Dumortier

Nils

Belgium

freelance

Cochez

Tom

Belgium

Apache.be

van den Eynde

Wim

Belgium

VRT

Franssens

Jeroen

Belgium

VRT

Callewaert

Christophe

Belgium

De Wereld Morgen

Debruyne

Ides

Belgium

Fonds Pascal Decroos

Platteau

Karel

Belgium

Fonds Pascal Decroos

Kashumov

Alexander

Bulgaria

Access to Information Programme

Terzyiski

Kyril

Bulgaria

Access to Information Programme

Vaglenov

Stanimir

Bulgaria

24 Casa

Mulvad

Nils

Denmark

Kaas & Mulvad

Alfter

Brigitte

Denmark

Wobbing.eu

Birkedal

Katrine

Denmark

Ugebrevet A4

Pedersen

Anders

Denmark

freelance

Kaas

Tommy

Denmark

Kaas & Mulvad

Bo

Elkjær

Denmark

Ekstra Bladet

Vahter

Tarmo

Estonia

Ekspress

Järv

Margus

Estonia

Ekspress

Ruokangas

Hanna

Finland

TV3

Sipoloa

Simo

Finland

YLE

Rappe

Axel

Finland

YLE

Boulanger

Pierre

France

freelance

Mecklenburg

Wilhelm

Germany

lawyer

Mondial

Sebastian

Germany

Spiegel

Funk

Matthias

Germany

freelance

McCarthy

Smari

Iceland

Icelandic Media

Snorrason

Herbert

Iceland

Open Leaks

Sheridan

Gavin

Ireland

StoryFul

de Winter

Brenno

Netherlands

Bigwobber.nl

Slaghuis

Lex

Netherlands

Hackdeoverheid

Cugun

Alper

Netherlands

Hackdeoverheid

Johansen

Per Anders

Norway

Aftenposten

Bones

John

Norway

VG

Endre

Alf

Norway

Aftenposten

Furuly

Jan Gunnar

Norway

Aftenposten

Radu

Paul

Romania

Investigative Dashboard

Bengtsson

Helena

Sweden

SVT

Thurston

Jack

United Kingdom

Farmsubsidy.org

Rosenbaum

Martin

United Kingdom

BBC

Evans

Rob

United Kingdom

Guardian

Brooke

Heather

United Kingdom

freelance

Cumiskey

Annamarie

United Kingdom

freelance

Roe

Sym

United Kingdom

Farmsubsidy.org

Pope

Richard

United Kingdom

Farmsubsidy.org

Rogers

Simon

United Kingdom

Guardian

Bradshaw

Paul

United Kingdom

Helpmeinvestigate.com

O'Myrthu

Cynthia

United Kingdom

Financial Times

Marsiske

Stefan

Hackers Space

Eva

Vajda

Hungary

freelance

Minna

Knus-Galan

Finland

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Interdependent Thoughts
Ton Zijlstra

ton at tonzijlstra.eu
+31-6-34489360

http://zylstra.org/blog
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On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>wrote:

> Thanks for the update Ton!
>
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Ton Zijlstra <ton.zijlstra at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 1) Brigitte Alfter, Nils Mulvad are data journalists.  They are
> organizing a
> > data journalists meet-up in Brussels in May. I will attend. Juan has ok'd
> > spending a some seed money on this, so this is the first of our 8 events
> we
> > help with some funding. Juan also indicated he might like to attend there
> > himself.
>
> Any more information about this item? E.g. dates? Should I contact
> Brigitte/Nils directly re: synergies with other data journalism
> activities/groups?
>
> --
> Jonathan Gray
>
> Community Coordinator
> The Open Knowledge Foundation
> http://blog.okfn.org
>
> http://twitter.com/jwyg
> http://identi.ca/jwyg
>
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