[euopendata] Update on pan-European open data competition

Tue Mar 15 12:40:06 UTC 2011

By video do people mean a screencast or something more e.g. user stories?

Could a middle ground not be found such that ideas can be illustrated with graphic mockups and/or a screencast?

All the best,
Jason

On 15 Mar 2011, at 12:05, Chris Taggart wrote:

> Count me out then :-( I hate doing video so much (and it takes so much time to do) that it's too big a barrier.
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> Chris
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> On 15 March 2011 11:50, Andreas Trawoeger <atrawog at datenscheibe.org> wrote:
> 2011/3/15 Chris Taggart <countculture at gmail.com>
> Great stuff. I'd second the request to allow submissions as text only rather than video. Think video only adds an additional barrier & will inevitably mean that it's the videos being judged rather than the ideas (and even if that's not the case, it will be a concern).
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> I would like to disagree. Doing a video forces you to at least prototype what you want to do and show that you or somebody else within your team is actually capable of implementing it.
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> Text only submission have tendency to read like wishes to the tooth ferry: I want every bit of data conceivable and then I will build a website that makes everything super easily accessible.
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> cu andreas
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