[okfn-be] presentation

Thu Dec 15 16:40:15 UTC 2011

Chiming in to also say wlcome, Laurent - props on doing work with La
Quadrature (one of my personal faves re: #openweb NGOs!)

I look forward to hearing more from you in the future :)

Kat

| Kat Braybrooke | Community Coordinator
| Open Knowledge Foundation | London UK
| OKFN.org <http://okfn.org/> | Tweet @OKFN <http://twitter.com/okfn> | Tweet
@kat_braybrooke <http://twitter.com/kat_braybrooke>

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Lieven Janssen <lieven at thedatatank.com>wrote:

> Laurent,
>
> Welcome as well!
>
> how do you exactly parse the website? Do you use a framework? Which
> programming language?
>
> Within the iRail NPO we developed The DataTank a platform which can be
> used to easily scrape a website and turn it into a RESTful API returning
> JSON, XML, ...
>
> You can check it out on http://thedatatank.com. If you have any questions
> about it don't hesitate to contact me.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Lieven Janssen
>
>
> 2011/12/15 Peter Dedecker <Peter.Dedecker at n-va.be>
>
>>
>> Great, welcome!
>>
>> I especially like your attempt to parse lachambre.be as I use this
>> annoying site a lot. If you are able to parse the committee meeting
>> schedule and allow me to trigger on my name there, that would be a great
>> help to organize myself as we are not notified on the content of changes in
>> the schedule and we always have to scan the whole thing for our individual
>> changes. The Chamber isn't the most progressive institution regarding IT...
>>
>> So good luck and welcome in the group!
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
>> On 15-dec.-2011, at 05:44, Laurent Peuch <psycojoker at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hello everyone,
>> >
>> > I never know how to present myself, but let's try it:
>> > I'm Laurent Peuch (Bram on irc), from the Internet, I'm a free
>> > software/freedom/Internet lover/activist and a code addict.
>> >
>> > In the informations that might interest you, I'm:
>> > - involved since quite some time already as a volunteer in la
>> >  Quadrature du Net, a French citizen group that defend our freedom
>> >  (especially of expression) on the Internet and Net Neutrality. It
>> >  has been especially involved against ACTA.
>> > - also involved since the beginning in NURPA, a Belgium citizen group
>> >  that participate in the same subjects than la Quadrature du Net but
>> >  in Belgium (and also at the European level).
>> > - the main develop of the political memory of la Quadrature du Net
>> >  which rely a lot of opendata (provided by Parltrack for the
>> >  European Parliament and by NosDeputes.Fr for the French Assemble).
>> >  It's one of our main campaign tools that also allow us to compare
>> >  how our elected representatives match our voting recommendations on
>> >  text that are related to our subjects (ie: the vote on the
>> >  resolution on ACTA).
>> > - also involved in Neutrinet.
>> > - probably forgetting something.
>> > - the fact that I have just started to parse lachambre.be to create
>> >  structured data out of it because I'm very annoyed that no one has
>> >  ever done this yet (at my knowledge) reminded me to subscribe to
>> >  this list.
>> >
>> > I subscribed to this list to be informed on what is happening on
>> > opendata in Belgium (I'm quite disconnected with this community in
>> > general) and also because I'm very happy to see things moving and see
>> > if I can give an hand.
>> >
>> > I believe that this is the right time for us citizens to change the
>> > society by building the right tools, especially on the political level
>> > by taking back our role in it, and that opendata is a key element to
>> > that (but not only for that).
>> >
>> > I'm also addicted to chocolate and cats.
>> >
>> > Nice to meet you :)
>> >
>> > --
>> >
>> > Laurent Peuch -- Bram
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > okfn-be mailing list
>> > okfn-be at lists.okfn.org
>> > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-be
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> okfn-be mailing list
>> okfn-be at lists.okfn.org
>> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-be
>>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> okfn-be mailing list
> okfn-be at lists.okfn.org
> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-be
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/okfn-be/attachments/20111215/c0dcbc8c/attachment-0001.html>