[okfn-discuss] Next Saturday (November 19th): OKFN Hack Day

[Kat Braybrooke]

Jonathan - that sounds like a great idea, and exactly the sort of thing we
imagined adding to the Community Dashboard (soon to be the OKF homepage!)

Tom, we should certainly talk about adding this to the Dashboard at the
hackathon!

Kat

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On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>wrote:

> (cc'ing open-data-day list)
>
> This looks great Tom! :-)
>
> To coincide with Open Data Day, we were thinking of running an 'Open
> Data Census' to map open data initiatives around the world.
>
> http://www.opendataday.org/
>
> This might be as simple as capturing a photo, a URL, or a brief
> message on a map - to give a sense of all the interesting open data
> stuff that is going on around the world.
>
> Do you think we could use the fruits of your OKFN Community Dashboard
> sprint to help do this?
>
> J.
>
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Tom Rees <tom.rees at okfn.org> wrote:
> > Hey everybody,
> > Next Saturday (November the 19th) we'll be gathering as many developers
> and
> > designers as possible from noon at the Barbican Centre in London to take
> > advantage of their free wi-fi and to do some hacking :-)
> > If you can't make it in person, you're welcome to join us online in
> #okfn on
> > FreeNode. We'd like as many people as possible!
> > Our goal is to build a Community Dashboard for deployment on the OKFN
> main
> > site. The requirements are happily fuzzy - we're imagining a Google Maps
> > mashup with information about blog posts, latest news from working
> groups,
> > deployments of software projects, activity on the Data Hub, ... you get
> the
> > picture. The Dashboard will be a one-stop shop to see everything going on
> > across the Foundation, and to help people feel involved in the wider
> > community. Because we can build anything we like, there's plenty of
> > opportunity for everybody to influence how it turns out.
> > So please come and join us! We've created a Meetup page to host the
> event,
> > so you can let us know if you are coming: http://meetu.ps/5j8tC
> > - Tom
> > PS. The in-person event will run approximately from 12 o'clock to Pub
> > o'clock. Maybe we'll order some pizza.
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