[euopendata] Third EU Open Data Call (Tue 2010-02-09 at 1600 GMT)

Mon Feb 8 17:35:08 UTC 2010

Hi,

James asked if we are still going to have the monthly call, since few 
people told that they are not able to participate.

I say, that we keep the time, those who can participate tomorrow will, 
and we will decide a bit later time for next month.

So far at least few of us will be able to participate and maybe some of 
the new people on the list will join us. Let's enjoy the more focused 
dicussion with less people this time :)

Check:
http://etherpad.com/m2U136pNR9

IMHO routine is good to keep in this kind of things, second tuesday 
every month.

-Jogi

> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 8:19 AM, Ton Zijlstra <ton.zijlstra at gmail.com 
> <mailto:ton.zijlstra at gmail.com>> 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
>     -------------------------------------------
>     Interdependent Thoughts
>     Ton Zijlstra
> 
>     ton at tonzijlstra.eu <mailto:ton at tonzijlstra.eu>
>     +31-6-34489360
> 
>     http://zylstra.org/blog
>     -------------------------------------------
> 
> 
>     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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