[@OKau] 3rd International Open Data Conference (May)

Fri Apr 3 05:08:27 UTC 2015

Not hangout, but hangout on air. The latter allows for a wider audience and
some participation.

I hope that some folks from govt will attend, yes. I hope they can co-host,
yes. I hope they will share lightning talks to stimulate conversation, yes.
If no to all this I will still try and bring in AU govt exposure any way
possible.

More generally I will share a business case template anyone might find
helpful.

On Friday, April 3, 2015, Rosie Williams <budgetaus at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I might just seek to clarify what you've said to ensure I've got it
> straight:
>
> You are going to be asking people who work for the gov in open data to go
> to the Ottowa event to make face to face presentations etc? You are hoping
> to share this workshop online via Google hangout.
>
> There is another event on the 27th May (Australian time?) . This is a CKAN
> specific event to get feedback from gov users of the platform? Is this
> virtual or face to face?
>
> Rosie Williams BA (Sociology)
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> Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2015 13:12:34 +1100
> From: steven.decosta at linkdigital.com.au
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> Subject: Re: [@OKau] 3rd International Open Data Conference (May)
>
> For the IODC in May there is a 99% chance I'll be hosting a workshop as
> per the info below. Just waiting on something official to confirm it.
>
> I'm developing a business case template that people can use to try and get
> funding/leave to attend the Ottowa event and should have that sent around
> to this list soon (this weekend). I'm trying really hard to get physical
> representation from key people in federal and/or state Government at the
> workshop as I think Australia is doing lots of great stuff that we should
> be sharing with everyone :) The idea is to have co-hosts from AU Govt named
> in the agenda if approvals come through.
>
> During the workshop session (assuming it officially gets onto the agenda)
> I hope to run a hangout on air so that the session can be shared. It
> depends on the local logistics once I'm there, but it should be feasible.
>
> In addition to this the CKAN Association Steering Group have discussed
> holding a CKAN specific event on the 27th of May, which is between the
> Canada specific event and the IODC event (all in Ottawa that week).
> Minutes from the SG meeting are up here:
> http://ckan.org/2015/04/01/bazinga-minutes-from-the-ckan-association-steering-group-1-april-no-joke/
>
> Anyhoo - the point is that there should be opportunities to cross over
> between locations, even if not in real time, and help people make some
> connections between the events.
>
> You can see from the info I submitted below that I was pitching to have an
> open source artifact developed as part of the process.
>
> Hoots!
>
>
> *Focus:* a workshop
>
> *Initiative*: Call for Sharing
>
> *Title*: Methods agencies can use to automate data publishing and the use
> of open data for Government service delivery
>
> *Description:*
>
> I suggest hosting a workshop on the methods agencies can use to automate
> data publishing and the use of open data for Government service delivery.
>
> This would be a practical workshop influenced by our experience working
> with various Government agencies in Australia, and our involvement with
> GovHack. It would aim to draw out the experience of all attendees to open
> up a broad discussion. We'll focus on those ideas which begin to illustrate
> best practices for data publishing and data use. The workshop would be
> oriented around the creation of a list of learnings taken from all
> participants and would be documented further after the workshop via ongoing
> collaboration with interested participants. The resulting paper would be
> published as an open source artifact.
>
> To open discussion, short case studies of 5-10 minutes would be presented.
> These can be modified over the next few months, but possibilities include:
>
> 1. Discussion of the Data First Media Platform that Link Digital is
> building for the ACT Government. This is a digital asset management system
> based on CKAN which includes a number of automated ingest methods.
>
> 2. Practices around information asset registers of private data that are
> moderated for publishing into an open data portal. Data.vic.gov.au
> <http://data.vic.gov.au/> and data.nsw.gov.au are examples we can draw on.
>
> 3. Practices around the intra-jurisdictional cross linking of datasets to
> create portals with datasets made discover-able from multiple
> jurisdictions.
>
> 4. Discussion of the GovHack success model, which promotes Agency datasets
> within a community of 1500+ developers each year.
>
> 5. Discussion on education practices for data custodians, drawing on the
> work done by data.gov.au through its ongoing creation of custodian
> resources.
>
>
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> On 2 April 2015 at 09:53, Rosie Williams <budgetaus at hotmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','budgetaus at hotmail.com');>> wrote:
>
> The topic of the International Open Data Conference came up on Twitter a
> few days ago. http://opendatacon.org/
>
> People agreed that it would be good to have an event but everyone was too
> busy to be organiser. Having been made co-organiser of the Australian
> Open Data meetup founded late last year by Steven Adler (Chief Information
> Strategist at IBM - NY), I realised this was a good motivation to plan an
> event for late May which, among other things, would lead into regular open
> data meetups in Sydney.
>
> I invited people who showed interest to join the list here to help plan
> the event but wanted to get a venue settled before pursuing discussion. I'm
> new to event management but thought that settling on a figure for attendees
> (as a pre-requisite to booking a venue) would be the best way to begin.
> I've decided on a figure of 60 people however I'd like a bit of lee-way but
> that will depend on the venue. I was also hoping to make it a day long
> event on one of the last Saturday's in May so that more people can get to
> it and actually get stuff done.
>
> I did get a generous offer of one venue that might take this number but it
> was more suited to social events and I'm not sure it has the appropriate
> technology. Fishburners would probably make a day available but it is not
> open weekends. I'm asking around at Google which is in Pyremont and waiting
> on a reply there. If it is a weekend event I thought Pyremont/Darling
> Harbour would make a nice setting but there are also benefits to being
> closer to the city.
>
> Alvaro has mentioned the state library might have an appropriate space so
> that would be worth following up.
>
> That is where planning is up to at this stage.
>
> cheers,
>
>
>
> Rosie Williams BA (Sociology)
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