[euopendata] [psi-workers] Timing of pan-European open data competition

Mon Mar 21 15:10:36 UTC 2011

Dear Jonathan,

I think this is a question for Thomas, Margot and the EU Commission: of 
course, in terms of organizing the contest, having some more time would 
be better, in my opinion, but I think that we have a strong commitment 
toward having something tangible to present at the Digital Assembly...

Best,

Federico

On 03/21/2011 01:59 PM, Jonathan Gray wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Several people have now commented to me in person, via email and on
> the phone that they think that the competition should be *launched* in
> June to coincide with the Digital Assembly, instead of launching in
> April and being judged in June.
>
> At the moment we're still planning to go ahead for an April launch -
> but I'm interested to see if anyone else has any strong views on the
> timing of the competition. E.g. in terms of busy-ness are our target
> audience more likely to be more free between April-June, or (e.g.)
> June to September? My only concern is that people may go away
> completely over the summer - or may be too busy enjoying the nice
> weather to build applications/visualisations.
>
> What do people think?
>
> All the best,
>
> Jonathan
>