[epsi-coord] News shift

Sun Jul 17 22:08:54 BST 2011

Maybe this is a bit too trivial, but I saw a short news bulletin last week
about an open data project around the 'Gentse Feesten', a popular ten day
festival held in Ghent right now. Since Ghent is one of the political
frontrunners on open data (see our earlier guest blog:
http://www.epsiplatform.eu/guest_blogs/appsforghent_moving_open_data_forwa
rd_in_belgium), they're providing raw data focusing on the official
festival calendar and geographic data on public toilets (see here for a
summary in Dutch:
http://www.gentsefeesten.be/nieuws/gentse-feesten-kiezen-voor-open-data;
or http://www.gent.be/open). It's not hugely spectacular, but they do have
some apps available now, which is a nice demonstration of the social and
PR value of open data (better apps for tourists!). I can do a short news
blurb on that, if you're interested. Might be a good continuation of the
guest blog.

Cheers,

Hans

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Van: epsi-coord-bounces at lists.okfn.org
[mailto:epsi-coord-bounces at lists.okfn.org] Namens Daniel Dietrich
Verzonden: donderdag 14 juli 2011 16:11
Aan: epsi-coord
Onderwerp: [epsi-coord] News shift

Hi all

Just q quick note that I did take over the News shift from Ton for the
next weeks. If you spot anything interesting you think we should cover
please send me a hint. Thanks. I will attend next mondays meeting as well.

Regards
Daniel

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