[okfn-be] Idea for Open Belgium 2015 - data portal for Namur

Wed Nov 19 15:32:57 UTC 2014

Hi,

I know some guy from Dogstudio who organizes the KIKK if this might help.
I'm from Namur and I'd be glad to participate to the Hackathon and meet 
you guys.
BTW, you are all invited to the RBelgium meetups ;) 
(www.meetup.com/rbelgium)

See you,

JB

On 2014-11-19 15:53, Philippe Duchesne wrote:
>
> Hi Pieter,
>
> First people coming to my mind are some of the organizers of the KIKK 
> conference (yearly digital creative conf in Namur), who probably have 
> pointers. I'll  try to reach some of them.
> Also, the Café Numérique Namur group (www.cafenumerique.org/namur 
> <http://www.cafenumerique.org/namur>).
>
> --p.
>
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Pieter Colpaert 
> <pieter.colpaert at okfn.org <mailto:pieter.colpaert at okfn.org>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     The 23d of February, we are doing the second edition of the Open
>     Belgium conference, and this time we are doing it in the city of
>     Namur. This causes some difficulties: the main organisation of the
>     conference (Pieter-Jan Pauwels and the session organisers), have
>     no feeling with the city of Namur. What we would like to do
>     however is to make our conference have an impact on the ville de
>     Namur and make sure we all get to know the ville de Namur a little
>     better:
>
>     We would like to launch a simple data portal for the ville de
>     Namur and make sure people can start building on top of this API
>     to build useful apps. After the conference, we hope the ville de
>     Namur wants to keep this data portal online and take over the
>     maintenance of the website.
>
>     Some questions to you:
>      * Are there people who actually do know people at the ville de
>     Namur and can bring us in touch with people concerning e.g.,
>     digital innovation, smart cities, e-government, data/information
>     management, geo strategy... ?
>      * Do you have a dataset (e.g., trash pick-up schedule, bus stops,
>     statistics, etc) about the ville de Namur? Do you want to
>     contribute it to the portal? It's easy: provide us with a CSV, XML
>     or JSON file (if the data is in a PDF, you can also contribute by
>     extracting the data from the PDF and delivering a CSV!)
>      * Does someone want to contribute with code? We could organise a
>     hackathon to hack together an even nicer looking data portal for
>     the ville de Namur in Namur somewhere in December/January and
>     launch it at the conference.
>
>     Oh yes, if you would have an idea yourself for the conference,
>     please do reply! We will launch the website next week, so more
>     information coming soon :)
>
>     Kind regards,
>
>     Pieter
>
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