[Okfn-ca] Fwd: [OKFN-Local-Coord] Join the City Spending Data Party July 19th - 21st!

[Gabe Sawhney]

We'll be participating in Toronto: http://bit.ly/torontobudgethackathon



On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Diane Mercier <diane.mercier at gmail.com>wrote:

>  PVI | FYI
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> -------- Message original --------  Sujet: [OKFN-Local-Coord] Join the
> City Spending Data Party July 19th - 21st!  Date : Thu, 11 Jul 2013
> 10:04:41 -0400  De : Anders Pedersen <anders.pedersen at okfn.org><anders.pedersen at okfn.org>  Pour :
> okfn-local-coord at lists.okfn.org
>
>  Hi all,
>
>  The OpenSpending community is organizing a global *City Spending Data
> Party *next week on* July 19th to 21st*. The Spending Data Party has
> become reality thanks to groups including Hasadna<http://www.hasadna.org.il/en/>
>  (israel), OpenBudgetOakland <http://openbudgetoakland.org/>, OpenKratio<http://openspending.org/blog/2013/06/30/openkratio.org/>
>  (Spain), BudgIT <http://yourbudgit.com/> (Nigeria), OKF Japan<http://spending.jp/>,
> OKF Brazil and OKF Nepal <https://twitter.com/okfn_np>. Join us and open
> up some spending data near you!
>
>  Register for the City Spending Data Party July 19th - 21st!<https://docs.google.com/a/okfn.org/forms/d/1uHNAh9cfP_F5nudGfhV8t0XnNPmFL7cXhkuqWHAMaR4/viewform>
>
> Who: You, other spending explorers in your city, and the rest of the
> OpenSpending community
>
> Where: In your city. Add it to the list<https://docs.google.com/a/okfn.org/document/d/1Zh-TPxgMiFDrzk-rNJqL9CmCbbtlZmp2xjWlZ6T20TA/edit#heading=h.f0m4z18ez212> of
> places with activities.
>
> What to do at the Spending Data Party:
>
> *- *Get your hands on some budget or spending data from your city and add
> it to OpenSpending. Analyse, wrangle and visualise<http://openkratio.github.io/ugr-presupuestos/>
>  the data!
>
> - Connect and learn from community trainings during the event via Google
> Hangouts
>
> - Tell the Open City Data Census <http://census.okfn.org/city/> about how
> accessible data is in your city
>
> - Share what you find!
>
> What to explore in the spending data:
>
> - Do you know how much your city actually spends on education compared to
> what it spends on police?
>
> - Do you want to help more people understand the budget of your city?
> Maybe you can get ideas from OpenBudgetOakland<http://openbudgetoakland.org/mayor_13-15_proposed.html> who
> created a site where citizens can comment and ask questions on the budget
> proposal.
>
> - Which companies work for your city and do they actually do a good job?
> Cities such as London <http://openspending.org/gb-local-gla> and Washington
> DC <http://openspending.org/dc-vendors-contractors> release transactional
> spending data that allows you to see what companies clean up the garbage
> and repair the roads. Let us open up spending data in more cities!
>
> Register here<https://docs.google.com/a/okfn.org/forms/d/1uHNAh9cfP_F5nudGfhV8t0XnNPmFL7cXhkuqWHAMaR4/viewform> for
> the Spending Data Party. Also, check the full announce post<http://openspending.org/blog/2013/06/30/spending-data-party-announce.html>
> .
> *
> *
> *Need an introduction to OpenSpending?*
> If you would like to know more about OpenSpending before you join the
> Spending Party, you can get a solid:
> *
> *
> *Introduction to OpenSpending* on *July 18, 16:30 CET / 15:30 BST / 10:30
> EDT - your time zone here<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Introduction+to+OpenSpending&iso=20130718T1030&p1=263&ah=1>
>  *via Google Hangout
>
>  Register here<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1GaXw9mQYdJ6xjkADw-eg4vH5Uq6mM7o0T9029Hn6akk/viewform> for
> the introduction to OpenSpending!
>
>  Best,
> Anders
>
>  --
> *
>
> Anders Pedersen
>
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>  *
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