[@OKau] OpenSpending Next: 2015 Roadmap

[Mark Gregson]

Hi everyone

Since I'm new to OK and Steven de Costa recently nominated me as an OK
local tech contact for OK Labs I thought I'd take this opportunity to
introduce myself!

I've been a web developer for about 15 years, have worked in a variety of
different environments (government, marketing, tertiary education).  The
recent history that led me to this position is that I spent some years
recently working in the Queensland University of Technology library where I
was technical lead for the university's open access research repository and
online scholarly journal publishing.  This introduced me to various
openness movements: open access, open source, and to a lesser extent, open
data. I recently moved states and joined Link Digital as the technical team
lead.

As the local tech contact, I am trying to be a conduit for information
between OK Labs and local members. The OK Labs want to find out about local
tech stories and goings on and they want you to participate in their
regular Labs hangouts <http://okfnlabs.org/events/hangouts/>. I'll keep an
eye on this list for news but feel free to drop me a line at
mark.gregson at linkdigital.com.au if there's anything you'd like me share
with the Labs folk.

Paul, is there anything I can do to assist you with coordinating or
recruiting the locals for OpenSpending? Alex and I could host a Skype call
if that would be valuable.

Cheers
Mark

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*Mark Gregson  |  Team Lead (Development)Link Digital*

www.linkdigital.com.au
p: *02 6111 2907* | f: 02 6248 5582
GPO Box 199 Canberra ACT 2601
5/32 Lonsdale Street Braddon ACT 2612

On 21 May 2015 at 19:48, Paul Walsh <paulywalsh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I’m co-ordinating the development of the next version of OpenSpending, and
> currently that means formalising a bunch of ideas that have been kicking
> around a while, and devising a plan for development in 2015.
>
> If you want to contribute to a global spending project, and help us solve
> really difficult issues like comparative analysis of financial data, as
> well as more fun stuff like visualising data for humans, then read see the
> coped mail below.
>
> If you do not hack, but you are interested in the opening up of budgets
> and other financial data, you can still help!
>
> User stories and use cases: We are collecting user stories and use cases
> around open financial data. You can contribute to this thread -
> https://discuss.okfn.org/t/sharing-spend-data-use-cases/270/5 - or also
> contact me directly.
>
> Specifications: If you are a domain expert in financial data, or, for
> example, a journalist doing statistical analysis on financial data, you
> might be interested in helping out on the specifications for what we call
> Open Spending Data Package: http://labs.openspending.org/osep/osep-04.html.
> You can also contact me directly on that as well.
>
> Lastly, you may just like to signup to the discussion forum to follow what
> is going on:
>
> https://discuss.okfn.org/c/openspending
>
> Best,
>
> Paul
>
> ----
> (copied from mail to openspending-dev and okfnlabs)
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've booted a simple Jekyll site for all the roadmap and specification
> work on the new OpenSpending (which I've dubbed OpenSpending Next in
> absence of anything better to call it):
>
> http://labs.openspending.org/next/
>
> Important links:
>
> • Roadmap (http://labs.openspending.org/next/roadmap.html)
> • Components and Teams (
> http://labs.openspending.org/next/roadmap.html#components-and-teams):
> Work will focus on specific components. This section makes those explicit,
> provides some ballpark estimates, and provides a way to register interest
> in joining a team
>
> The site is hosted on GitHub Pages:
>
> • https://github.com/openspending/next
>
> We welcome pull requests and issues to make suggestions on the existing
> roadmap, and to help out with the specifications - particular user stories
> and use cases at this stage. Every page has a link for editing, to make
> this easier.
>
> Best,
>
> Paul
>
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*Mark Gregson  |  Team Lead (Development)Link Digital*

www.linkdigital.com.au
p: *02 6111 2907* | f: 02 6248 5582
GPO Box 199 Canberra ACT 2601
5/32 Lonsdale Street Braddon ACT 2612
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