[OKFN-AU] Fwd: [OKFN-Local-Coord] Open Data Census - Call to Action!!

Wed Jun 5 01:54:15 UTC 2013

Wonderful, thank you Alex :)

If ok with you I'll announce this role filled on the okfn-au blog?

Kind Regards, Flanders

On 5 June 2013 11:51, Alex (Maxious) Sadleir <maxious at gmail.com> wrote:

> I volunteer myself - I was already doing that, check the Submitted By
> attribution on the Australian entries! ;)
> I also maintain datacatalogs.org entries for Australia so if anybody is
> launching a new portal (or there is one missing), let me know.
>
> Zara: Can I get access to edit the review spreadsheet, please?
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 11:26 AM, David F. Flanders <
> david.flanders at ands.org.au> wrote:
>
>> Dear OKFN-au WG,
>>
>> I'm hoping one of you might be willing to step up and act as the curator
>> for making sure Australia is represented on the Open Data Census platform,
>> see email from Zara (international OKFN coordinator) below.
>>
>> This volunteer commitment would be approximately three days per year
>> (broken up however you so please), including the following tasks:
>>
>>    - You would need to check census.okfn.org quarterly to make sure the
>>    latest data is being made available.
>>    - We would hope for at least one blog post on the OKFN-au blog per
>>    year to provide an update on the international census data movement.
>>    - Email updates to the national listserv of any census news of
>>    interest.
>>    - No coding skills are required for this task, as if it was found
>>    that we needed to upload more data we would action an event or the like to
>>    do so.  Though naturally we would need you involved in that event.
>>    - Good article/blog writing skills, and social media skills
>>    encouraged.
>>    - This work may potentially lead into an international hack event on
>>    international data day - further discussions will happen at OKFN-au of
>>    which Pia and I will be attending this year as Ambassador for Australia.
>>    - We are still working on the title of this role, but something like
>>    "Australian Open Census Ambassador" <-- OKFN would look to provide an
>>    official reference on your LinkedIn profile or the like for
>>    this volunteer role.
>>
>> Please note we'll be advertising for these volunteer ambassador roles on
>> the OKFN-au blog however we'll always offer these responsibilities to our
>> official working group first.  Please do suggest someone if you think they
>> would be well situated to take on this volunteer role.
>>
>> Further news:
>>
>>    - We'll also be adding everyone who ticked the 'yes please add me to
>>    the OKFN listserv' from the GoHhack registration in the coming weeks :)
>>    Stay tuned.
>>    - Also further announcements with regards to Dr. Rufus Pollock's
>>    visit in July coming soon.
>>    - As always OKFN-au is looking to empower all open organisations in
>>    Australia so please do let me know how we can help promote your open
>>    efforts - together we can make more of a difference.
>>
>>
>> Kind Regards,  David F. Flanders
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Zara Rahman <zara.rahman at okfn.org>
>> Date: 31 May 2013 00:50
>> Subject: [OKFN-Local-Coord] Open Data Census - Call to Action!!
>> To: Open Knowledge Foundation Local Coordinators Mailing List <
>> okfn-local-coord at lists.okfn.org>, Christian Villum <
>> christian.villum at okfn.org>
>>
>>
>>  Hi everyone,
>>
>>  We want to improve the coverage of the Open Data Census (
>> http://census.okfn.org/ <http://census.okfn.org/>) and verify existing
>> contributions to ensure information is still up to date and reliable.
>>
>>  We need your help in doing this! There are 2 aspects:
>>
>>
>>    -
>>
>>    Contributing on countries where there is missing information - you
>>    can do this right now, just visit http://census.okfn.org/c<http://census.okfn.org/countries/>
>>    ountry/
>>     -
>>
>>    Reviewing existing contributions - you will need access to the review
>>    spreadsheet<https://docs.google.com/a/okfn.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AiWM2KV46Zt0dGxMVVo3c3JKZ2U0NHVzZVozSEJwdXc#gid=0>(just let us know and we can add you)
>>
>>
>>  We would also like to appoint Open Data Census editors who would oversee
>> a country or region.
>>
>>  This would involve a relatively small amount of time over the next
>> couple of weeks (until June 12th) and would involve both adding
>> information yourself and mobilizing input and expertise from colleagues
>> to contribute.
>>
>>  If you are interested in being an editor please just reply to this mail
>> (this way we can coordinate efforts). Or, simply go to
>> http://census.okfn.org/countries/ add information directly!
>>
>>
>> We look forward to hearing from you!
>>
>>
>> Best,
>>
>>
>> Zara, Christian, Rufus and the rest of the OKF team
>>
>>
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>>
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>>
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