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

Mon Mar 21 15:00:18 UTC 2011

Hi all, it's a tough question ;) 
my only concern is that the pan-european competition should be something big in terms of participation and hopefully output (sophisticated apps) so it is important to give enough time to the community to build the apps. 
I think we should focus on that, thinking if postponing would help to gather more and better projects or not. From one side it is true that, with more time, we can communicate better and leave the call open for more time but from the other the Digital Agenda Assembly it's clearly the perfect "EU" stage.
In sum I am supporting all the moves that help, or at least may help, to get better quality - I am not sure that busyness is critical, after all if you are "working" on this field or/and you are interested in doing something with open data it's not important the period of the year but how much time you have. 
my two cents.

bests,
lorenzo

Il giorno 21/mar/2011, alle ore 13.59, Jonathan Gray ha scritto:

> 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
> 
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