[ogdcamp] Let's hack!

Wed Jul 20 16:19:17 UTC 2011

Friedrich

Many thanks for this.  Some comments below.

Regards

Andrew 

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From: ogdcamp-bounces at lists.okfn.org [mailto:ogdcamp-bounces at lists.okfn.org]
On Behalf Of Friedrich Lindenberg
Sent: 19 July 2011 18:57
To: ogdcamp at lists.okfn.org
Subject: [ogdcamp] Let's hack!

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"

+1 - a valuable tool, and also need to bring sense of community and building
on what has gone before.

- the chat-by-day-and-hack-by-night "Data Dungeon"
- the it-smells-in-here-and-there-are-no-women "Hacker Track" (in programme)

-1 - I understand the ethic, but need to be careful not to stereotype.

- the 24-hour "get-this-database-pretty" challenge

0 - good exercise to move the agenda on, but not sure how impactful the
results would be (many people won't understand how bad the data is to start
with).  Could usefully involve groups like OpenCorporates.

- micro-wg meetups for popular project classes (legislation tracking,
spending, mapping)

+1 - good focus, smaller groups will give greater interaction and
relationship building.  Also useful for generating data/examples for people
to use for improvement back in their home jurisdication

- the general data science fair

+1 in principle yes, and could help build bridges between the Open Data
community and the Big Data community to mutual benefit.

- unborn projects speed dating

0 could work, requires careful design.  Variants could be "Dragon's Den" or
"The Apprentice" ....

- a fossmanuals-style book writing effort

-1 not a lot of interaction in this?

What else would people like to try?

- Friedrich

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