[ogdcamp] [open-government] Countries for OGDCamp

Tue Oct 11 22:30:44 UTC 2011

I don't think using Ushahidi is really necessary. I'm also using it a
lot an it's too complicated for this task. The idea is really good,
but I think placing the points on a simple Google Map would be better
and more manageable.

Boyan

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 00:22, Tim McNamara <tim.mcnamara at okfn.org> wrote:
> Who is the admin for that Crowdmap? Using Ushahidi is quite a neat way
> to go, although Crowdmap uses quite an old version.
>
> I've used Ushahidi quite a bit and would happy to help getting the
> configuration settings correct.
>
> 2011/10/12 Pranay Sinha (MPhil IDD FT) <PKS846 at bham.ac.uk>:
>> Hi Lucy,
>>
>>
>>
>> This is what you are trying to visualize?
>> http://thegreatopendatacensus.crowdmap.com/ Please see one of the video I
>> just tried uploading (What is open government data?)
>>
>>
>>
>> It’s made on Ushahidi crowd sourcing platform.
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Pranay
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> From: open-government-bounces at lists.okfn.org
>> [mailto:open-government-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Lucy Chambers
>> Sent: 11 October 2011 19:00
>> To: A list for Open Government Data Camp organisers and participants
>> Cc: open-government at lists.okfn.org
>> Subject: Re: [open-government] [ogdcamp] Countries for OGDCamp
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> (cc'ing open-government list)
>>
>> I was thinking that it would be really nice to have a video camera set
>> up and we could have 30 second updates from people working on open
>> data around the world. This could be augmented with contributions from
>> the web.
>>
>> Does anyone know about geolocating video clips and displaying them on a map?
>>
>> We could call it 'The Great Open Data Census'. ;-)
>>
>> Love it!
>>
>>
>>
>> Lucy
>>
>>
>>
>> J.
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org>
>> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Kat Braybrooke <kat.braybrooke at okfn.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Very exciting! Thanks for the share, Lucy! Really thinking we should get
>>>> tags or something to identify what country everyone is from.
>>>
>>> +1, does anyone have any ideas for how this could happen? We didn't
>>> collect
>>> peoples' country at time of registration.
>>> Kat and I were contemplating just now having a 'who's here?' board like at
>>> the OKF office in London asking people to write down the name of their
>>> country if they are the first one in...
>>> What do people think? Any other ideas?
>>> Lucy
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Kat
>>>>
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>>>> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> Just a happy note to say, just on the basis of people that have
>>>>> responded
>>>>> to me personally, we have representation from at least 35+ countries. I
>>>>> haven't even combed the registration list and it may actually be hard to
>>>>> work out as people have not given their nationalities there (NOTE:
>>>>> possibly
>>>>> would be a nice thing to ask for during registration next time.)
>>>>>
>>>>> So far, all being well, we will have representation from:
>>>>>
>>>>> * Albania
>>>>> * Australia
>>>>> * Austria
>>>>> * Brazil
>>>>> * Bulgaria
>>>>> * Canada
>>>>> * Chile
>>>>> * Czech Republic
>>>>> * Estonia
>>>>> * Finland
>>>>> * France
>>>>> * Germany
>>>>> * Greece
>>>>> * Hungary
>>>>> * Iceland
>>>>> * India
>>>>> * Ireland
>>>>> * Italy
>>>>> * Kenya
>>>>> * Latvia
>>>>> * Lithuania
>>>>> * Luxembourg
>>>>> (* Montenegro - just got an email from people possibly attending)
>>>>> * Netherlands
>>>>> * Poland
>>>>> * Portugal
>>>>> * Slovakia
>>>>> * Slovenia
>>>>> * South Africa
>>>>> * Spain
>>>>> * Switzerland
>>>>> * Taiwan
>>>>> * Ukraine
>>>>> * Uruguay
>>>>> * United Kingdom
>>>>> * United States
>>>>> If you know someone planning on coming from a country which is not
>>>>> listed
>>>>> here, please do let us know! It would be great to compile a rough
>>>>> list...
>>>>> In addition, thinking forward to future years, it would be great to
>>>>> identify key contacts in places which do not currently feature on this
>>>>> list,
>>>>> so we can make contact and make sure they come along! If you know people
>>>>> we
>>>>> should reach out to - it would be great if you could cc us an
>>>>> introduction.
>>>>> Go Global!
>>>>> Lucy
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Lucy Chambers
>>>>> Community Coordinator
>>>>> Open Knowledge Foundation
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>>>>> Skype: lucyfediachambers
>>>>>
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