[euopendata] [open-government] Logo for Open Data Challenge

Lex Slaghuis lex at wikiwise.nl
Thu Mar 24 13:13:11 UTC 2011


Too much communism! Perhaps a pricecup and a spanner? Other colors...


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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: [open-government] Logo for Open Data Challenge (Jonathan Gray)
   2. Re: Logo for Open Data Challenge (Paul Meller)
   3. Rules + website for Open Data Challenge (Jonathan Gray)
   4. Does anyone know Matt Jones of the 'Get Excited and       Make
      Things' poster? (Jonathan Gray)
   5. Re: [psi-workers] Rules + website for Open Data   Challenge
      (Jonathan Gray)
   6. Re: [psi-workers] Rules + website for Open Data   Challenge
      (Thomas Roessler)


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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:00:19 +0100
From: Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>
Subject: Re: [euopendata] [open-government] Logo for Open Data
        Challenge
To: Elena Simperl <elena.simperl at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Cc: workers <workers at share-psi.eu>,     Open Government WG List
        <open-government at lists.okfn.org>,       EU Open Data Working Group
        <euopendata at lists.okfn.org>,    okfn-discuss
        <okfn-discuss at lists.okfn.org>
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Okay - so it seems like people are not so keen on the crossed hammer/spanner, which is one of the standard webdings icons [1] - and alludes to the open gov data spanner [2]. Hence I'll try and get in touch with Matt Jones, who created the 'Get Excited and Make Things'
poster, and see if he'll give us permission to incorporate his spanner crown thing [3]. Failing that I'll try and substitute in something which doesn't have hammer and sickle connotations!

J.


[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Webdings-big.png
[2] http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4119/4888280202_506d78e4d5.jpg
[3] http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackbeltjones/3365682994/

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Elena Simperl <elena.simperl at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
> Am 24.03.2011 12:41, schrieb Daniel Dietrich:
>>
>> Hi Jonathan,
>>
>> I am not sure about the design with the crossed hammer and wrench.
>>
>> Reminds me a bit of pink floyd's the wall ... ;)
>>
>> Daniel
>
> It reminds me at my childhood behind the Iron Curtain, to be honest
> :-)
>
> Elena
>>
>> On 24.03.2011, at 12:32, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>>
>>> Some new versions with a different colour and different fonts
>>> (responding to various comments on and off list!):
>>>
>>> Small:
>>>
>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/okfn/5552137659/sizes/s/in/photostream/
>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/okfn/5552723150/sizes/s/in/photostream/
>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/okfn/5552723732/sizes/s/in/photostream/
>>>
>>> Medium:
>>>
>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/okfn/5552137659/
>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/okfn/5552723150/
>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/okfn/5552723732/
>>>
>>> Better? Worse? I quite like the thin, sans serif font.
>>>
>>> J.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Paul
>>> Meller<paul at openforumeurope.org>
>>> ?wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I like it.
>>>>
>>>> On Wednesday, 23 March 2011, Jean-Baptiste Soufron
>>>> <jb.soufron at capdigital.com> ?wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Nice, it looks like a foursquare badge :D Jean-Baptiste Soufron
>>>>>
>>>>> blog : http://www.soufron.com
>>>>> think digital : http://thinkdigital.capdigital.com
>>>>>
>>>>> phone: +33 (0) 970 466 928
>>>>> mobile: +33 (0) 648 741 510
>>>>> fax: +33 (0) 950 140 164
>>>>> skype: soufron
>>>>> facebook<http://www.facebook.com/soufron>
>>>>> twitter: soufron<http://www.twitter.com/soufron>
>>>>> gtalk : soufron at gmail.com
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Jonathan
>>>>> Gray<jonathan.gray at okfn.org>
>>>>> ?wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I just created a prospective logo for the Open Data Challenge:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/okfn/5550671734/
>>>>>
>>>>> Re: scale, it is unlikely to be much smaller than this:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/okfn/5550671734/sizes/s/
>>>>>
>>>>> What do people think?
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Jonathan Gray
>>>>>
>>>>> Community Coordinator
>>>>> The Open Knowledge Foundation
>>>>> http://blog.okfn.org
>>>>>
>>>>> http://twitter.com/jwyg
>>>>> http://identi.ca/jwyg
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jonathan Gray
>>>
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:06:12 +0100
From: Paul Meller <paul at openforumeurope.org>
Subject: Re: [euopendata] Logo for Open Data Challenge
To: Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>
Cc: "workers at share-psi.eu" <workers at share-psi.eu>,      Jean-Baptiste
        Soufron <jb.soufron at capdigital.com>,    "open-government at lists.okfn.org"
        <open-government at lists.okfn.org>,       EU Open Data Working Group
        <euopendata at lists.okfn.org>,    okfn-discuss
        <okfn-discuss at lists.okfn.org>
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colour's great. I also prefer sans serif but I think the text should be in bold - it's clearer.

Paul

On 24 March 2011 12:32, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:

> Some new versions with a different colour and different fonts
> (responding to various comments on and off list!):
>
> Small:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/okfn/5552137659/sizes/s/in/photostream/
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/okfn/5552723150/sizes/s/in/photostream/
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/okfn/5552723732/sizes/s/in/photostream/
>
> Medium:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/okfn/5552137659/
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/okfn/5552723150/
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/okfn/5552723732/
>
> Better? Worse? I quite like the thin, sans serif font.
>
> J.
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Paul Meller
> <paul at openforumeurope.org>
> wrote:
> > I like it.
> >
> > On Wednesday, 23 March 2011, Jean-Baptiste Soufron
> > <jb.soufron at capdigital.com> wrote:
> >> Nice, it looks like a foursquare badge :D Jean-Baptiste Soufron
> >>
> >> blog : http://www.soufron.com
> >> think digital : http://thinkdigital.capdigital.com
> >>
> >> phone: +33 (0) 970 466 928
> >> mobile: +33 (0) 648 741 510
> >> fax: +33 (0) 950 140 164
> >> skype: soufron
> >> facebook <http://www.facebook.com/soufron>
> >> twitter: soufron <http://www.twitter.com/soufron> gtalk :
> >> soufron at gmail.com
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Jonathan Gray
> >> <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> I just created a prospective logo for the Open Data Challenge:
> >>
> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/okfn/5550671734/
> >>
> >> Re: scale, it is unlikely to be much smaller than this:
> >>
> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/okfn/5550671734/sizes/s/
> >>
> >> What do people think?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Jonathan Gray
> >>
> >> Community Coordinator
> >> The Open Knowledge Foundation
> >> http://blog.okfn.org
> >>
> >> http://twitter.com/jwyg
> >> http://identi.ca/jwyg
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Workers mailing list
> >> Workers at share-psi.eu
> >> http://share-psi.eu/mailman/listinfo/workers_share-psi.eu
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Jonathan Gray
>
> Community Coordinator
> The Open Knowledge Foundation
> http://blog.okfn.org
>
> http://twitter.com/jwyg
> http://identi.ca/jwyg
>
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:08:41 +0100
From: Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>
Subject: [euopendata] Rules + website for Open Data Challenge
To: EU Open Data Working Group <euopendata at lists.okfn.org>,
        workers at share-psi.eu
Cc: open-government at lists.okfn.org, OKFN Help
        <okfn-help at lists.okfn.org>
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Some key ideas for rules:

  * Pan-European angle is strongly encouraged
  * Entries for apps must come from team which contains groups/individuals from at least 2 EU member states
  * Repurposed apps are allowed (i.e. an app that exists for London can be expanded to work for Paris + Torino and entered)
  * Apps must be open source
  * Core data must be freely reusable and derived data must be openly licensed

Any more ideas? These are just a few bits which may stand out. I will also review rules from our list here:

http://opengovernmentdata.org/competitions

We're talking to people at Open Cities about the website. The key thing will be to have something *really* simple (i.e. *really, really*
simple) which has:

  * a big countdown for entries somewhere near the top ('X days left!')
  * a piece of text explaining the basic 'what' and 'why' of the competition - as parsimonious as possible
  * some rules - preferably simple and entertaining to read
  * entry forms for 'ideas', 'apps' and 'visualisations'
  * drop down menu to have material in multiple languages

All comments welcome. We're going to be fixing all of this down in next couple of weeks or so.

All the best,

Jonathan

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Jonathan Gray

Community Coordinator
The Open Knowledge Foundation
http://blog.okfn.org

http://twitter.com/jwyg
http://identi.ca/jwyg



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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:18:02 +0100
From: Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>
Subject: [euopendata] Does anyone know Matt Jones of the 'Get Excited
        and     Make Things' poster?
To: open-government at lists.okfn.org
Cc: EU Open Data Working Group <euopendata at lists.okfn.org>
Message-ID:
        <AANLkTinfBaSy1j4=EGigSpjrd1uXerxpwoLFto_0N8Fp at mail.gmail.com>
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Trying to get in touch to ask permission to incorporate this into the Open Data Challenge logo! ;-)

See:

http://twitter.com/#!/jwyg/status/50893681917575168

--
Jonathan Gray

Community Coordinator
The Open Knowledge Foundation
http://blog.okfn.org

http://twitter.com/jwyg
http://identi.ca/jwyg



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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:32:09 +0100
From: Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>
Subject: Re: [euopendata] [psi-workers] Rules + website for Open Data
        Challenge
To: Federico Morando <federico.morando at polito.it>
Cc: workers at share-psi.eu, open-government at lists.okfn.org,       EU Open Data
        Working Group <euopendata at lists.okfn.org>,      OKFN Help
        <okfn-help at lists.okfn.org>
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        <AANLkTinaaEcsbiuDKTzJhv-zKOEOwRDeFS2uh+BAKFEB at mail.gmail.com>
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For me the 'you have to team up with someone in another country' angle is quite nice as it means people in different countries will have to talk and work together (which is partly what the competition seeks to encourage).

Re: open source + open data in apps, what about 'we strongly encourage entrants to use open licenses for code, content and data'?

J.

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Federico Morando <federico.morando at polito.it> wrote:
> On 03/24/2011 01:08 PM, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>>
>> Some key ideas for rules:
>>
>> * Pan-European angle is strongly encouraged
>
> I surely agree. We may even say that you should use data from at least
> 2 member states and/or that your app shoul make sense in at least two
> member states (e.g. in London and Paris).
>>
>> * Entries for apps must come from team which contains
>> groups/individuals from at least 2 EU member states
>
> I don't think that this is necessary: let's put constraints on the
> apps/data (as you did above and below) and not on the
> institution/organization/group that proposes them... It's a call for
> apps, not a EU project ;-)
>>
>> * Repurposed apps are allowed (i.e. an app that exists for London can
>> be expanded to work for Paris + Torino and entered)
>
> OK, sure!
>>
>> * Apps must be open source
>> * Core data must be freely reusable and derived data must be openly
>> licensed
>
> I'm not entirely sure: we may say that this is a plus in the
> evaluation, but is it a requirement? What needs to the open are the
> public data (in input), not necessarily the code/data of the re-users ("derived data")...
> [Personally, I'm sympathetic with this rule - in particular the part
> about open source code: it's just that I think it deserves an explicit
> and open discussion.]
>
> Thanks and best regards,
>
> Federico
>
>
>



--
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The Open Knowledge Foundation
http://blog.okfn.org

http://twitter.com/jwyg
http://identi.ca/jwyg



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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:36:37 +0100
From: Thomas Roessler <tlr at w3.org>
Subject: Re: [euopendata] [psi-workers] Rules + website for Open Data
        Challenge
To: Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>
Cc: OKFN Help <okfn-help at lists.okfn.org>,
        open-government at lists.okfn.org, workers at share-psi.eu, Federico Morando
        <federico.morando at polito.it>,   EU Open Data Working Group
        <euopendata at lists.okfn.org>
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On 24 Mar 2011, at 13:32, Jonathan Gray wrote:

> For me the 'you have to team up with someone in another country' angle
> is quite nice as it means people in different countries will have to
> talk and work together (which is partly what the competition seeks to
> encourage).

On the one hand, I like that idea.  On the other hand, I wonder whether we're overconstraining things.

> Re: open source + open data in apps, what about 'we strongly encourage
> entrants to use open licenses for code, content and data'?

I don't think we should require open source licenses for the apps (or make this part of the evaluation) -- in fact, if somebody came up with something that's productized and sold later on, we should welcome that.

At the same time I do think we need to say something about the data used:  For example, I don't think we're looking for an app that required 1M EUR upfront investment to acquire the data.

> J.
>
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Federico Morando
> <federico.morando at polito.it> wrote:
>> On 03/24/2011 01:08 PM, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>>>
>>> Some key ideas for rules:
>>>
>>> * Pan-European angle is strongly encouraged
>>
>> I surely agree. We may even say that you should use data from at
>> least 2 member states and/or that your app shoul make sense in at
>> least two member states (e.g. in London and Paris).
>>>
>>> * Entries for apps must come from team which contains
>>> groups/individuals from at least 2 EU member states
>>
>> I don't think that this is necessary: let's put constraints on the
>> apps/data (as you did above and below) and not on the
>> institution/organization/group that proposes them... It's a call for
>> apps, not a EU project ;-)
>>>
>>> * Repurposed apps are allowed (i.e. an app that exists for London
>>> can be expanded to work for Paris + Torino and entered)
>>
>> OK, sure!
>>>
>>> * Apps must be open source
>>> * Core data must be freely reusable and derived data must be openly
>>> licensed
>>
>> I'm not entirely sure: we may say that this is a plus in the
>> evaluation, but is it a requirement? What needs to the open are the
>> public data (in input), not necessarily the code/data of the re-users ("derived data")...
>> [Personally, I'm sympathetic with this rule - in particular the part
>> about open source code: it's just that I think it deserves an
>> explicit and open discussion.]
>>
>> Thanks and best regards,
>>
>> Federico
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Jonathan Gray
>
> Community Coordinator
> The Open Knowledge Foundation
> http://blog.okfn.org
>
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> http://identi.ca/jwyg
>
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