[euopendata] eurostat hackday

Mon Jan 31 08:33:35 UTC 2011

Paola,

I can only speak for LATC (in my role as LATC co-ordinator). Yes, I think,
in order to be credible, we need to walk our talk; heck, we're trying to
convince governments that transparency is good for them, so we need to eat
our own dog food, right?

> a) what have been the outcomes/benefits

AFAIK there will be a report on this. Please be patient.

> b) how money did it cost EU taxpayers to fly around people to attend the
> respective sessions, in the case these were not participating in their local
hometown/region
> c) a breakdown of which  EU projects covered for the travel costs

As for LATC, the participation in the Eurostat hackday was sort of a
(welcome) and synergetic side-effect. In fact, what we really had was a
joint LATC WP1/WP2 technical meeting. The LATC's WP1 assembles and delivers
the 24/7 Interlinking Platform, and in WP2 DERI and Talis take care of
(amongst other things) to RDFise and interlink the Eurostat dataset. G

Given that Keith Alexander (Talis) is located close to Edinburgh and had to
meet with Richard Cyganiak and Aftab Iqbal (both DERI), I found it sensible
to propose to meet there - this is the cheapest and closest location from
Galway POV - in order to leverage the communication and sharing with others
(incl. PlanetData liaison partner Andreas Harth). As you can see, we tried
everything to cut down costs as much as possible and maximise outcome in the
realm of things we're contractually obliged to deliver in LATC.

> d) some kind of carbon footprint for the day

A very good idea! How about you go ahead and provide a mashup of this? I'd
be interested in this showcase of open data.

Cheers,
      Michael

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> From: Paola Di Maio <paola.dimaio at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: <paoladimaio10 at googlemail.com>
> Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:59:40 +0000
> To: euopendata <euopendata at lists.okfn.org>
> Subject: [euopendata] eurostat hackday
> 
> Greetings
> 
> I am putting together a summary of cost/benefits activities  for the
> EUROSTAT hackday
> including the 'environmental cost' of flying people around
> 
> http://eurostat.okfn.org/
> 
> I'd like to know
> 
> a) what have been the outcomes/benefits
> b) how money did it cost EU taxpayers to fly around people to attend the
> respective sessions, in the
> case these were not participating in their local hometown/region
> c) a breakdown of which  EU projects covered for the travel costs
> d) some kind of carbon footprint for the day
> 
> 
> Does anyone have this information on this list? If not, I ll ask the EU
> Commission for the
> breakdown
> 
> cheers
> 
> PDM
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