[ogdcamp] [open-government] Countries for OGDCamp

Tue Oct 11 22:53:52 UTC 2011

+1 from me, I too think Ushahidi might have a little bit too much overhead

I've started a public map here: http://g.co/maps/vrnse

On 12 October 2011 11:30, Boyan Yurukov <yurukov at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> | Kat Braybrooke | Community Coordinator
>>>>> | Open Knowledge Foundation | London UK
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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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