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

Mon Feb 8 08:29:44 UTC 2010

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
> -------------------------------------------
> 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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