[okfn-br] Brazilian chapter focus

Quarta Novembro 2 23:07:28 UTC 2011

Hey, Tom!

I agree and think you're taking all of this in a very sensible and viable
direction, and connecting the right set of people together that could make
it work. Open education, open science, open content and data-driven
journalism are certainly very much relevant in this context.

Machado de Assis Livre sounds great! By the way, his texts are available on
the Natural Language Toolkit for Python (nltk.org). This could make it even
easier to set up the project. Also, I have some NLP ideas I'd personally
like to pursue when I have time using the Machado de Assis corpus.

About BURN ALL DOCS!!!, for those who couldn't follow the portuguese
language discussion: it's an idea I threw at the wind during Consegi, at
the hacker room. It's supposed to be a hall of shame of public bodies that
disobey the norm that mandates them to use exclusively the Open Document
Format, and who publish documents proprietary formats on the internet
anyway. Since there are no official penalties for this, and official
external Brazilian audit public bodies (CGU, TCU) haven't so far checked
this issue, that should be an incentive for them to make a conscious effort
to follow the regulation and get off the list.

As for my blog, I hope I find the time before it's too long. I have a long
backlog of ideas... :)

BTW, can you post a link to the THacker Alavetelli instance? I'm curious...

Cheers,
Augusto Herrmann

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga <
everton137 em gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, Augusto!
>
> Em 31/10/2011 21:49, "Augusto Herrmann" <augusto.herrmann em gmail.com>
> escreveu:
>
> > I was talking about this to Profa. Gisele Craveiro of USP during the
> Social Participation Conference. I think these are a good set of goals to
> start with. But I also think we should try to use some Brazilian content
> (or data) on some ongoing OKFn projects. Also, we should also promote other
> open knowledge activities that are not strictly open data - such as the
> ones related to literature and the public domain.
>
> I agree with all points! I've been involved with open educational
> resources projects, for this I've added Wikimedia Brasil and Recursos
> Educacionais Abertos as groups we could bring as part of OKFn BR. For the
> same reason, I've added two groups supporting open science in Brazil and I
> want expand this list, but let's do step by step. :)
>
> I've heard to journalists friends talking about datajournalism in Brasília
> (it was really clever of you to have this panel!) and I think we should
> start, at least, spread the word. As it was said in another topic, I
> believe it is important to have journalists between us.
>
> > I had written a post detailing these ideas earlier today, but a
> connectivity problem prevented me from sending it. So I'll send more
> details tomorrow.
>
> I am anxious to see your blog!
>
> P. S.: I loved the projects you added on our list. Open Machado de Assis
> (Machado de Assis Livre, não? Mais um caso onde acho que livre é melhor que
> aberto na nossa língua : ) seems to be easy to put in practice.
>
> What about the campaign BURN ALL DOCS?!?! :D
>
>
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/thackday/burn$20all$20docs/thackday/WCmyz2jltF8/sKDd0xCPQaQJ
>
> Maybe after we finish to configure Alaveteli for the public information
> request site (the thacker community has been doing a great job on it!
> Amazing what I've seen today!), we could use the same software to this
> project you proposed at CONSEGI. ; )
>
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