[euopendata] Open Data Manual + Open Data Hunt events...

Fri May 14 10:40:55 UTC 2010

Yes - I will ping the other lists!

Daniel (and anyone else): could you pop a comment on the blog saying
you're interested? Would be good to keep track of expressions of
interest there in the first instance...

All the best,

Jonathan

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Daniel Dietrich
<daniel.dietrich at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> great idea. I like this.
>
> We should prepare a local data hunt event for our first regular monthly "everything open" meeting here in Berlin on 3rd June.
>
> We should also drop a note to these two lists
>
> Opendata Network <opendata-network at lists.metasync.org>
> OKFN Deutschland <okfn-de at lists.okfn.org>
>
> to get people involved in the preparation.
>
> Kind regards
> Daniel
>
>
> On 11.05.2010, at 19:44, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Notes from today's call are available at:
>>
>>  http://pad.okfn.org/okfn-euopendata
>>
>> A couple of other things:
>>
>>  1. We're starting work on an 'open data manual' pulling together
>> relevant bits and pieces we've worked on in the past (some links
>> available below). If anyone's interested in contributing - please say!
>>
>>  2. We're starting to organise a series of Data Hunt events to add
>> details of (open) government datasets in different countries to
>> citizen-driven data catalogues. Again, if anyone wants to run one of
>> these or otherwise help out (or if you want help making a data
>> catalogue for your country!) - please say here, ping me or drop a note
>> as a comment on the blog post:
>>
>>  http://blog.okfn.org/2010/05/11/data-hunt-events-for-open-government-data/
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>
>> This might be useful, which looks at various legal and technical aspects:
>>
>>  http://www.unlockingaid.info/
>>
>> We're also starting work on a new Open Data Manual based on this and other work:
>>
>>  http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/okfn-discuss/2010-April/007244.html
>>
>> And we are going to cover similar ground in a forthcoming report on
>> Open Government Data:
>>
>>  http://opengovernmentdata.org/
>>
>> And we've also got rawdatanow.com on the back burner, which we intend
>> to use for examples, stories and case studies around getting hold of
>> data in raw, machine-readable form. This will be aimed at the general
>> public, government departments who publish data, and so forth!
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Gray
>>
>> Community Coordinator
>> The Open Knowledge Foundation
>> http://blog.okfn.org
>>
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