[euopendata] [bigclean] Idea: screen scraping sprint -> 19.3.2011

[Daniel Dietrich]

hi all


On 2 Mar 2011, at 15:48, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:

> So action items:
> 
>  (i) Set up basic thebigclean.org wordpress site (1-2 hours)
>  (ii) Launch site with blog post and publicise (1 hour)
>  (iii) See if we can find other partners in other European cities to
> take part/participate - if not in March, then in May/June
> 
> If anyone on the list has a spare hour or so to help with (i) it would
> be *very* much appreciated! ;-)
> 


i am ready to go and do this tomorrow. 

Daniel


> J.
> 
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Antti "Jogi" Poikola
> <antti.poikola at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Some months ago I send this list an idea about screen scraping day. The
>> global event is still planned, but as many of us are quite busy right now we
>> decided to start with small and organise 19th March a twin event in two
>> cities Prague (Czech) and Jyväskylä (Finland). I will organise small "five
>> guys and pizza" -type of event in Jyväskylä and Jindřich Mynarz will make a
>> bit bigger one in Prague.
>> 
>> The idea is to have this as a preparatory event so that in may or june we
>> could organise really nice global screen scraping day. For now we would need
>> some helping hand in setting a wordpress blog... OKF has reserved the
>> domain  bigclean.org
>> 
>> Also if some other cities would like to join in on 19th of March, you are
>> more than wellcome.
>> 
>> BR, Antti "Jogi" Poikola
>> 
>> http://blog.okfn.org/2010/11/10/announcing-the-big-clean-spring-2011/
>> 
>> On 1 October 2010 13:50, Antti Poikola <antti.poikola at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>  Hi people,
>>> 
>>> I just got an idea that we could organize maybe even global screen
>>> scraping day/camp/sprint with the idea to create open API:s to government
>>> data by programming screen scrapers to existing public, but technically not
>>> open data sources?
>>> 
>>> So far just a vague idea... anybody interested to brainstorm it further?
>>> 
>>> -Jogi
>> 
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