[epsi-coord] Inception report - first topic report!

Fri Mar 4 08:13:52 GMT 2011

Hi guys, Tom,

I also went through the Google doc of the Inception Report, and added/edited
things. (Apart from the Mission Meeting remarks, they are just in the e-mail
right now)

best
Ton
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Interdependent Thoughts
Ton Zijlstra

ton at tonzijlstra.eu
+31-6-34489360

http://zylstra.org/blog
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On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Ton Zijlstra <ton.zijlstra at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> my remarks in between the lines, while I am heading to Eindhoven from the
> train......mobile working is always nice.
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> Interdependent Thoughts
> Ton Zijlstra
>
> ton at tonzijlstra.eu
> +31-6-34489360
>
> http://zylstra.org/blog
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>
>
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Katleen Janssen <
> Katleen.Janssen at law.kuleuven.be> wrote:
>
>> See my comments below
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* epsi-coord-bounces at lists.okfn.org [mailto:
>> epsi-coord-bounces at lists.okfn.org] *On Behalf Of *Tom Kronenburg
>> *Sent:* dinsdag 1 maart 2011 16:05
>> *To:* epsi-coord at lists.okfn.org
>> *Subject:* [epsi-coord] Inception report - first topic report!
>>
>>
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>>
>>
>> I have worked on the draft for the inception report for a bit today. I'd
>> very much like to finish it this week, so we can send it to the commission
>> on friday or during the weekend.
>>
>>
>>
>> Couple of issues we need to resolve:
>>
>>             - the number of current users - TON
>>
> We've got 3091 registered e-mail addresses in our lists. We'd need to add
> 1000 'active users' under the contract. After short discussion with Tom, I
> would go for that to mean we end up with over 4000 people in our mailing
> list. If we aim for 'really active' as in commenting on the site, we'd need
> to a much higher number of newly registered people, as the conversion rate
> from registering to commenting is about 1 in 10. So aim for 1000 newly
> registered people in our mailinglist/site.
>
>
>>             - We have a number of candidate events to serve as Mission
>> Meetings. But what constitutes a mission meeting? Is it a MM if one of our
>> team speaks and fits in a slide about EPSI? The list of events is:
>>
>>
>>
> I'd say, judging by our proposal, a Mission Meeting is an event where we go
> to actively raise awareness for the European scope and perspective of the
> PSI re-use debate. So it's not to show an EPSI slide, as it's not about
> promoting us, but raising awareness.
>
>>
>>    - We have partnered with the Guardian conference on Managing PSI on
>>    March 1st. The conference was attended by the OKF, and MDR and the current
>>    team have actively sought cooperation with the Guardian.
>>
>> Not a Mission Meeting by the above definition. A partnership. I still need
> to hear from the Guardian to do a short write-up. Nobody from us went there
> by the way (as decided during our Berlin meeting)
>
>>
>>    - Ton has spoken on behalf of the EPSI platform at CeBit Hannover for
>>    the government of Lower Saxony on an open gov data panel on March 2nd.
>>
>> This indeed was a MM. My role there was to educate the audience and
> present the European scope. (Although I had no slide about EPSI :) )
>
>>
>>    -
>>    - Marc or Katleen will speak at the Aporta conference in Madrid, april
>>    29th on behalve of the platform.
>>
>> Would be a MM to me.
>
>>
>>    -
>>    - Katleen will speak at the INSPIRE conference in edinbrough early
>>    june, on behalf of the platform.
>>
>> Probably best to make this ‘participate’ – as the presentation will be
>> unrelated and I am not sure if I can sneak in an EPSI platform slide…other
>> meetings might be better suited for ‘mission meetings’.
>>
>>    - Katleen will speak at the Geospatial summit in Budapest, hungary in
>>    june.
>>
>> This one could work better, as I have to speak about ‘legal issues on
>> access, re-use and data sharing in the EU”
>>
>>    - Ton and Katleen will both speak at the Open Data Austria Conference
>>    in June in Vienna on behalf of the EPSI platform.
>>
>> A MM, as I at least have been invited because of my role as a connector
> and EPSI community steward. I think Katleen has been invited because of her
> topical knowledge :)
>
>>
>>    - In  September Ton will co-chair a panel on OGD at the Dublin Core
>>    conference in The Hague, the Netherlands.
>>
>> Would add this as a MM yes, to bring the semweb crowd up to speed on
> relevant PSI developments.
>
>
>>             - The budgets will be included later, I will do so, because
>> copying excel-pictures into google docs is a b*tch. TOM
>>
>>
>>
>> please check out the draft on google docs! Add comments and/or edit the
>> text if there is anything you'd like to add!
>>
>>
>>
>> *One other thing caught my eye.* We also have to produce a monthly topic
>> report. I'd very much like to write the first one, but we need to establish
>> a subject. Naturally, we will focus on this in the KoM as well, but how
>> would you feel about a piece on all the different data portals that exist in
>> Europe today. We could do a nice inventory, do some core statistics (e.g.
>> number of datasets, number of Linked data sets), and interview the CKAN
>> developers/project leads about the direction this is going to take?
>>
>>
>>
>> We’ll need a list by the 10th probably – do we need topics or concrete
>> titles?
>>
> Topics.  EC will also suggest things I expect, but it will be good to have
> a list things for the coming 8 months (until next meeting with EC)
>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>>
>>
>> Tom
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