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

Pieter Colpaert pieter.colpaert at okfn.org
Wed Nov 19 15:44:34 UTC 2014


Hi Jean-Baptiste,

Nice to hear we actually have people from Namur on the mailinglist ;)

I'll add you to the list of people to contact from the moment we decide 
to go on with this idea :)

Would you be able to find a space for free for approx. 10 people in Namur?

Kind regards,

Pieter

On 2014-11-19 16:32, Jean-Baptiste Poullet wrote:
> 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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