[EU-lobby-data] Fwd: Re: [datacrunching] conference call to plan further steps on data crunching tool early September

Wed Sep 5 13:19:15 UTC 2012

On 05/09/12 15:09, Friedrich Lindenberg wrote:
> Dear all, 
>
> I'm very sorry for my no-show yesterday! I terribly underestimated
> distances here and was still in a car. Still, I see that you discussed
> the crowdsourcing item and would like to add two updates from my end: 
>
> 1) We (the European Journalism Center and OKFN) have received funding
> to do a Euro-themed hackday in London in November. The idea is to do a
> three-day coding sprint to develop tools for journalists relating to a
> specific dataset. I mentioned that we could use the lobby data as a
> foundation for this and this seems to be agreed as a topic now. Would
> any of you be interested in joining us as domain experts for the
> event? (November 24-25)

That sounds very exciting! We want to launch our website late November,
but the extra tools (if open source) could be added later. This is
exactly our idea for the website: lay the foundation and build on it
gradually.
>
> 2) I've been doing some work to create a cleaner backend, which also
> integrates the expert groups. There isn't a demo yet, but the basic
> stuff is working and I can provide expert group membership data quite
> easily if that's useful to any of you (updated re Rob's 2009 stuff).
>
Sounds good!
>
> Greeting from freezy South Africa,
>
Ah it's late winter over there. Hard to imagine as we are enjoying a
bout of very nice Spätsommerwetter.

Cheers,

Erik

> - Friedrich 
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Natacha Cingotti
> <natacha.cingotti at foeeurope.org
> <mailto:natacha.cingotti at foeeurope.org>> wrote:
>
>     Hey all,
>
>     since it seems we're having the call at 4', I'm re-sending the
>     info for calling in
>
>
>     -------- Original Message --------
>     Subject: 	Re: [datacrunching] conference call to plan further
>     steps on data crunching tool early September
>     Date: 	Mon, 03 Sep 2012 10:14:21 +0200
>     From: 	Natacha Cingotti <natacha.cingotti at foeeurope.org>
>     <mailto:natacha.cingotti at foeeurope.org>
>     Organisation: 	Friends of the Earth Europe
>     To: 	datacrunching at foeeurope.org <mailto:datacrunching at foeeurope.org>
>
>
>
>     Hello all,
>
>     just back in Brussels, and looking forward to catching up on th
>     edatacrunching tool!
>
>     Seem s like tomorrow tuesday 4th September at 10am works so let's
>     aim at talking then.
>
>     If you'd like we can use FoEE's conference call system:
>
>     _Numbers:_
>     Belgium: +32-2-404-03-05 <tel:%2B32-2-404-03-05>
>     Netherlands: +31 (0)20 7133488 <tel:%2B31%20%280%2920%207133488>
>
>     Germany: +49 (0)71 1707 4079 <tel:%280%2971%201707%204079>
>
>     _Participant PIN_: 84322252#
>
>
>     Speak to you tomorrow!
>
>     Natacha
>
>     On 20/08/2012 13:03, Timo Lange, LobbyControl wrote:
>>     Hi Natacha and Erik,
>>
>>     I am back from holidays and eager to hear what has been happening in the
>>     meantime. I've put my dates in the doodle but could also talk this week
>>     already!
>>
>>     Best
>>
>>     Timo
>>
>>
>>     Am 17.08.2012 13:07, schrieb Natacha Cingotti:
>>>     Hola guys!
>>>
>>>     Was just thinking that it's been a long time since we had a conversation
>>>     as a group about the datacrunching tool. Summer break is never ideal.
>>>     Erik had one to one chats with Friedrich and I've had one to one chats
>>>     with Erik, but maybe we need to update each other and see where we are,
>>>     what we need to do to move forward. There are contacts with TacTech at
>>>     the moment re: design (but slowed down because of the break) and
>>>     possibilities to improve the tool on crowdsourcing with friedrich
>>>     putting some work time in.
>>>
>>>     I suggest we discuss this early in September, how does that sound?
>>>
>>>     Tentative doodle, let's see if we find a time to discuss
>>>     http://www.doodle.com/fxaay78rfryi4gz7
>>>
>>>     Cheers
>>>
>>>     natacha
>>>
>
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