[euopendata] Skype

Sat Jan 9 13:31:24 UTC 2010

Hello all,

Tuesday 12.1.2010 is getting closer!

I have two points that I would like to have a chat with people next Tuesday:

#1 Idea: Apps for Democracy Europe contest...  national contests this 
year (at least Finland and Germany) and European wide finals this autumn 
or next spring.

#2 Evaluating the possibility to join CKAN and  opengov.x efforts -> 
Vision: a one-click service to establish a nice looking community 
oriented data catalog that is compatible with other catalogs in 
different cities or countries.

Best regards,
Antti "Jogi" Poikola

In the last skype call I promised to clear the Etherpad and send it as 
"meeting minutes" to this list. Here it comes:

Still online: http://etherpad.com/m2U136pNR9

---CLIP---

*First Skype conference of the informal "Opendata Europe group" *
15.12.2009 (12-13 GMT)

The idea is to have regular teleconferences with European opendata 
people, identify the people and initiatives around Europe. Mainly to 
keep each other updated about peoples doings and see the projects where 
synergies can be found.

*Next conference calls*
2nd Tuesday each month 6pm GMT, 7pm CET

    * Jan 12th

    * Feb 9th

    * March 9th

http://opendefinition.org/ - new guidance aimed at those publishing 
government data - on licensing/legal tools and 

http://eups20.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/reusing-remixing-and-building-on-the-importance-of-making-data-legally-open/ 
- on the importance of legal openness

Inviting:

    * Paris: action Jonathan

    * Sweden (Peter Krantz): action Jonathan

    * Norway

    * Iceland

    * Italy Alberto Cottica, David Osimo (to ask them for contacts, not
      that they're into open data themselves) + Politecnico Torino :
      actionpoint Ton

    * Spain http://aporta.es/

    * W3C eGov group: http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/IG/ scout for names
      from the EU.

    * http://www.facebook.com/#/group.php?gid=150661944506 Facebook
      group on open declaration EU. Ask there to see who is interest in
      Open Data.: action Ton

*Short intro of everybody:*

/Antti //Poikola //(Finland)/

    * Free consultant (HILA Open Oy -> http://fillarikanava.hel.fi/)
      <http://fillarikanava.hel.fi/%29>

    * Currently writing a Finnish language guidebook of open data to the
      Ministry of transport and communications in Finland -> published
      for all public sector organizations

    * Taking Swedish project to Finland http://www.opengov.se/ ->
      http://test.opengov.fi/

    * Going to translate the Open knowledge definition into Finnish
      (http://opendefinition.org/) <http://opendefinition.org/%29>

    * I was running the Apps for Democracy Finland
      (http://www.mindtrek.org/2009/democracy_finland)
      <http://www.mindtrek.org/2009/democracy_finland%29>

/Sören// (Germany)/

    * Semantic Data Web researcher from Leipzig, Germany

    * http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~auer
      <http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/%7Eauer>

/Ton (Netherlands//)/

    * initiator of http://ourdata.eu to collect pointers to initiatives,
      examples of re-use and datasets from across the EU

    * blog: http://zylstra.org/blog

    * active from both government, activist and commercial perspective

    * worked for Ministerium f.t. Interior, creating a 'manual' for open
      data, collecting examples and data sources, as well as build the
      network of change agents in Dutch government as well as coders and
      others.

    * hired by Danish gov to moderate conference on open data in Denmark
      next Feb. 

    * my regular work is in knowledge/change management, communities of
      practice mainly. http://tonzijlstra.eu/

    * was at Ministerial eGov conference in Malmö, to help present the
      Open Declaration on eGov in the EU.

/Jonathan Gray// (UK)/
Open Knowledge Foundation (okfn.org).

    * OKF is working on data.gov.uk and CKAN.

    * Working on German version of CKAN with Daniel.

    * Interested in making open government data registries
      interoperable. Making open (government) data easy to find and eary
      to reuse.

    * Commonalities in law and policy across Europe. E.g. EU PSI
      Directive. Helping to 'equip' open gov data initiatives with
      'policy toolkits' they need. E.g. evidence for value of open gov data.

    * Also new project with Open Society Institute mapping open
      government data initiatives around the world. Will bring this up
      on list. Want to identify experts and initiatives in each
      jurisdiction.

    * Keen to start having regular (monthly?) calls on open (government)
      data across Europe.

    * Please hold 24th April date in diaries. We plan to have a big
      session at OKCon 2010 in London.

/Daniel Dietrich (Berlin, Germany)/

    * Chairman Opendata Network Germany http://opendata-network.org

    * Starting CKAN Germany as a cooperation OKFN and ODN http://de.ckan.net

    * Apps 4 Democracy Germany Summer 2010

    * Opendata Hackday Berlin April 2010

    * Workinggroup on "Democracy-API" APIs for German public sector

*Projects goin on:*
project with Open Society Institute to map open data/ open gov project 
across EU. Mapping out stuff that's already going on.

/Eu project application/

    * Sören will post questions to the mailing list, so we can all add
      our suggestions.

Where does my money go project:  http://wheredoesmymoneygo.org/ 
(http://ourdata.eu/node/102) <http://ourdata.eu/node/102%29>

/CKAN in Germany/

    * open data directory for Germany, metadata, datasources from 

    * instance of the CKAN-code (http://de.ckan.net/)
      <http://de.ckan.net/%29> UI translated into German

    * getting into touch with

Ourdata.eu

    * I am looking for more people to add stuff from 'the ground' in
      different EU countries. To showcase your work. 

    * I would also love to make people visible there (show the network
      in the EU)

    * Happy to turn this into joint effort, and use it to showcase things.

*Dates*

    * Danish conference Feb 4th http://digitaliser.dk

    * 24th of April OKCon 2010 in London (and possibly the day before
      and after)

    * Open Data hack day Berlin: April 24th , 25th < Dates to be changed
      due to OKCon !!

    * Apps4Democracy Germany Summer 2010

    * Regular phonecalls second tuesday of every month 

*Something else*
Glossary building?
PSI, Public Service Information
Communia http://www.communia-project.eu/

*Action points*

    * Antti will go trough and clean this Etherpad

    * Jonathan will invite people to the e-mail list

    * Jonathan will see the exact dates of the Communia workshops

    * Sören sends email about interesting datasets

    * Everybody (is invited) to create an account at ourdata.eu, and add
      items there as they see fit.

    * I (Antti) have now account

Jonathan Gray wrote:
> Welcome to the EU Open Data list. As I mentioned previously, the
> function of this list is for discussion around a new series of regular
> Skype/phone calls for those interested in open data in Europe. These
> will take place on the second Tuesday of every month, at 1900 CET
> (1800 GMT).
>
> The list of people on this list is at:
>
>   http://wiki.okfn.org/euopendata
>
> (Please update affiliations as appropriate!)
>
> I suggest in the interests of keeping this small and active, we
> restrict this list to discussion of things which are non-public where
> possible (e.g. strategy, funding, etc.) and directly following up
> action items on calls.
>
> For other public discussion, I suggest we use the open government list:
>
>   http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-government
>
> If people are happy with this arrangement, happy to subscribe everyone
> to that list!
>
> More soon! :-)
>
>   