[euopendata] Open Data flow chart orig files Re: Third EU Open Data Call (Tue 2010-02-09 at 1600 GMT)

Thu Feb 11 13:41:14 UTC 2010

Hi Antti,

The original files are in Adobe Illustrator, and James Burke can give you
access to them.

James, can you send Antti a link to get to the .ai files for the open data
flow chart poster?
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Ton Zijlstra

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On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Antti Poikola <antti.poikola at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> Great update Ton
>
> I could make the Finnish translation of the poster if I get the original
> files... or how do you do the translations with the Norwegian?
>
> Congrats Michael... is thre any gallery or something about the winners?
>
> We are going to have today the kick-start meeting for Apps for Democracy
> Finland 2010. And with Daniel from Germany we decided to start streamlining
> the European Apps-contests (discussing the rules, prices, focus etc.) so
> that we save work in organizing the competitions and that they are more or
> les comparable wich makes it possible to have European wide contest maybe
> next year. It would be great to have also participants from different
> European countries and to get the participants to use data also over
> borders.
>
> So far Daniel have set up a wiki (still empty) in www.apps4democracy.eu,
> and I set up a posterous blog apps4democracy.posterous.com
>
> And about the timing of the call, I will add that point to the agenda.
>
> -Jogi
>
>
> Ton Zijlstra wrote:
>
>> Hi Antti, all,
>>
>> I hope to be there in the call Tuesday, but I am not sure if I will make
>> it back home in time for it. So I'll ping Antti when I get online (which
>> maybe halfway into the call).
>>
>> Some updates:
>>
>> I was at the Danish ODIS conference last Thursday (they hired me to
>> moderate the discussion), where a.o. John Sheridan and Peter Corbett were
>> speaking. It was also the final of the open data competition they did in
>> Denmark, with the Minister for Science announcing the winners. One of them
>> was Michael Friis whom some of you may know.
>>
>> Also present and speaking was Javier Hernandez-Ros of the European
>> commission, who is working on how the EU directive and INSPIRE directive get
>> implemented in the EU member states. I gave him our Open Data Flowchart, and
>> he asked us if we could generate more conversation at
>> http://epsiplatform.eu (who do by the way have a useful newsfeed)
>> See
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonz/4330602361/in/set-72157623228165543/for a pic of Javier with the flow chart. My impression is that Javier is
>> someone we can very well feed info and our vision to. He seems to have a
>> very high altitude overview, but less sight of the details. E.g. he thought
>> 'Germany is doing nothing on open data', which is true on a federal level
>> (see this interview e.g.
>> http://www.epsiplatform.eu/news/news/reflections_on_a_german_data_gov or
>> original http://blog.kooptech.de/2010/02/datagovde-deutschland/) but not
>> true on the state-level. E.g. Lower Saxony is in the process of creating an
>> open data catalogue. Javier Hernandez-Ros would I think be interested in us
>> feeding this kind of detailed info back to the EU level.
>>
>> Left in that pic I mentioned you see Olav, from Norway who is making the
>> Norwegian version of that flow chart (we discussed his translation).
>> I guess Olav is also the one Jonathan is in contact with to bring into the
>> call?
>>
>> The day after the conference I had a meeting at the Danish IT and Telecom
>> Agency (part of the min of science), to discuss how to move the open data
>> effort / community in Denmark forward. They were also interested in being
>> connected to the wider European network, as it will help them to show what
>> can/should be done, and overcome some of the internal discussions going on
>> within Denmark.
>>
>> I haven't been in touch yet with James on how to go about ourdata.eu <
>> http://ourdata.eu>. Andy from Austria has added some info in it since the
>> last call. But it is in need of some love and attention. I'd like it to be a
>> place where open data stories are collected from around the EU.
>>
>>
>> James and I have been invited to speak at a gathering of the Dutch
>> Semantic Web community next Friday. That group was missing in our network
>> until this point, but that bridge is now getting build. See
>> http://esw.w3.org/topic/DutchSemanticWebMeetups
>>
>> That's all for now. Hope to talk to you tomorrow.
>>
>> best,
>> Ton
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>> Interdependent Thoughts
>> Ton Zijlstra
>>
>> ton at tonzijlstra.eu <mailto:ton at tonzijlstra.eu>
>>
>> +31-6-34489360
>>
>> http://zylstra.org/blog
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>>
>> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Antti Poikola <antti.poikola at gmail.com<mailto:
>> antti.poikola at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    Hello,
>>
>>    EU Open Data People
>>
>>    The third call is getting closer (not this, but next Tuesday 9th of
>>    Feb.). The call was decided to be limited strictly to one hour this
>>    time. As I (Antti Poikola, also known as Jogi) promised to host the
>>    call, I have few tasks for you all:
>>
>>    1.
>>    Please go to the Etherpad and mark there if yo are able to
>>    participate in the call, and add your skype-name, so I know who
>>    should I try to reach
>>    http://etherpad.com/m2U136pNR9
>>
>>    2.
>>    I picked from the older Etherpads the introductions of "EU Open Data
>>    People" and added those in wiki, Please check your own story and
>>    update it there:
>>    http://wiki.okfn.org/euopendata/Introductions
>>
>>    3.
>>    Send here on the list in advance if you have some specific topics in
>>    mind.
>>
>>    4.
>>    Action items from last call, you may comment the status:
>>
>>    -Jonathan Gray: to invite representative from Norway
>>
>>    -All: would be great to comment on + fill in:
>>    http://opengovernmentdata.org/form/
>>
>>    -Everyone hold the days 23-25 April open in your calendars for the
>>    OKN conference
>>
>>    -James and Ton will look on how we could all use http://ourdata.eu/
>>    as common place to post things about national events.
>>
>>    -One-to-one discussions between Apps for Democracy
>>    contest-organizers (Atleast Jogi and Daniel... who else)
>>
>>    -Everybody, get to know your national representative of ePSI:
>>
>> http://epsiplatform.eu/contacts/european_public_sector_information_psi_platform_contacts/national_representative_organisations_european_psi_platform
>>
>>    -James, Jogi, Daniel: Organize the datacatalog/registry workshop:
>>
>> http://apoikola.wordpress.com/2010/01/23/open-government-data-catalogs/
>>
>>    BR, Antti "Jogi" Poikola (Finland)
>>
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