[okfn-be] The power of Open Source & Open Data: The gentse Feesten case

Thu Jun 27 05:56:02 UTC 2013

The Kortrijk Region can only try to follow this example.
Well done!

Wouter Degadt
Stafmedewerker e-Government

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Op 27 Jun 2013 om 03:42 heeft "Pieter Colpaert" <pieter.colpaert at okfn.org<mailto:pieter.colpaert at okfn.org>> het volgende geschreven:

Wow Roel!

This is a really cool story! And they love the story in Marseille (I'm here for the open data week) where I have presented it immediately during the coffee break

Kind regards,

Pieter

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Roel De Meester <roel.de.meester at wunderkraut.com<mailto:roel.de.meester at wunderkraut.com>> wrote:
Hi all,

a small story about the power of open source and open data.

About 2 months ago The Wunderkraut team made an offer to City of Ghent to build the new app for gentsefeesten.be<http://gentsefeesten.be>.

We offered to both use open data (event information) and to publish the code for both native ios and android apps on github.

Too bad we lost the deal because our competitor had proposed 1 more extra feature. A pity, but that's how life goes.

At that point the developers (@swentel and @timleytens) and graphic designer (@leenvs)  decided to build their proposal anyway during their spare time.

In roughly the same timeframe, and with (we think) a better result the volunteers managed to deliver the new app & publish their code on github.

Our hope is that this code will be reused next year and continuously improved for upcoming editions of GentseFeesten. That's the true power of Open Source and Open Data.

If you have time . please spread the news and retweet https://twitter.com/AppsForGhent/status/349836747431088129

Greetings
Roel

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