[OKFN-AU] blog posts for humanity

Tue Dec 11 00:17:03 UTC 2012

Nice!
On Dec 11, 2012 9:31 AM, "Kylie Pappalardo" <kylie.pappalardo at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I would add one more item to Pia's excellent list - the ABC releasing 22
> files of archival news footage to Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons
> Attribution (CC-BY) licences
> http://www.abc.net.au/archives/projects.htm
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Files_from_the_Australian_Broadcasting_Corporation
>
>
> Kylie
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Pia Waugh <pia.waugh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Oh, I don't think these are the top 10 necessarily, just something to
>> start with :) I'm sure others have great examples too :)
>>  On Dec 11, 2012 9:06 AM, "David F. Flanders" <david.flanders at ands.org.au>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> A great start Pia - 9 in total, one more and we'll have a top ten...
>>> though would love it if we could all think of even more :)  /dff
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11 December 2012 05:29, Pia Waugh <pia.waugh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> This sounds like a great idea Dave!
>>>>
>>>> I'll have a think, but off the top of my head here are a few:
>>>>
>>>> - Launch of righttoknow.org.au
>>>> - 30th anniversary of FOI in Australia
>>>> http://www.oaic.gov.au/news/events/2012_anniversary_main.html
>>>> - launch of dataACT (first actual open data platform in Australia,
>>>> though more may be launched before years end...)
>>>> - launch of various HacksHackers communities around Australia
>>>> - GovHack 2012 http://govhack.org/ and all the datasets that were
>>>> published for that
>>>> - "Experimental Environmental Linked-data published by the Bureau of
>>>> Meteorology' http://lab.environment.data.gov.au/
>>>> - NSW Government did real time bus competition - developers still have
>>>> access and they are opening up the API properly soon
>>>> http://www.spatialsource.com.au/2012/10/09/article/Real-time-bus-data-competition-NSW/ZCVREGNYVY.html
>>>>  <http://www.oaic.gov.au/news/events/2012_anniversary_main.html>-
>>>> launch of the crunch blog
>>>> http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/blogs/the-crunch/welcome-to-the-crunch-data-journalism-blog-20120628-21525.html -
>>>> and a good article on the topic generally is here
>>>> http://www.smh.com.au/data-point/from-stolid-to-sexy-vive-la-data-revolution-20120915-25zir.html
>>>> - launch of OKFNau ;)
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 5:33 PM, David F. Flanders <
>>>> david.flanders at ands.org.au> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Wondering if anyone on list would like to co-author a post with me on
>>>>> what (if any) Open Knowledge efforts they have seen this past year - a kind
>>>>> of New Year's reflection piece aka a 'Top Ten Open Knowledge' moments of
>>>>> 2012 for Australia?
>>>>>
>>>>> In my mind this post is not really about the OK Foundation, but more
>>>>> about helping chart any 'Open Knowledge' that is occurring in Australia and
>>>>> (perhaps even more importantly) re-iterating those occurrences that have
>>>>> actually resulted in doing things in a better way.
>>>>>
>>>>> The type of thing I am thinking of:
>>>>>
>>>>> For me the Open Knowledge moment worldwide in 2012 was the UK
>>>>> Government finally agreeing that research (as paid by the UK taxpayer)
>>>>> should by default be open (there are some caveats, but it was a big
>>>>> acknowledgement of the Open Access movement none the less).
>>>>>
>>>>> The question is: are there any moment in your mind for Australia that
>>>>> we could point to... moments like launching an FOI request website...
>>>>> moment such as opening up dataset not previously opened... moments of
>>>>> declaration or manifesto... or even more personal moments when two or more
>>>>> decided to get together and be activists for a more open Australia?
>>>>>
>>>>> If not looking to write the post with me, any shared OK moments are
>>>>> also greatly appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>> ~Flanders
>>>>>
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