[ogdcamp] Let's hack!

Tue Jul 19 17:56:54 UTC 2011

Hi all,

I've been drafted by Jonathan to contribute to the planning related to
hack days, workshops etc. around the camp. For those that don't know
me: I'm a coder with OKF and involved with the various open gov data
projects.

>From what I heard, there is relative freedom with regards to the
programme and judging by the diverse group that appeared at last
year's camp, there also isn't a particular target audience we need to
cater to. Therefore, I'd love some +1/-1 on the following ideas:

- the 1-day pre-event topic workshop, aka. "Learn ScraperWiki for Fun
and Profit"
- the chat-by-day-and-hack-by-night "Data Dungeon"
- the it-smells-in-here-and-there-are-no-women "Hacker Track" (in programme)
- the 24-hour "get-this-database-pretty" challenge
- micro-wg meetups for popular project classes (legislation tracking,
spending, mapping)
- the general data science fair
- unborn projects speed dating
- a fossmanuals-style book writing effort

What else would people like to try?

- Friedrich

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