[okfn-discuss] Bulletin Update

[Laura Newman]

Hi all,

Greetings from snowy Cambridge! Here is the latest bulletin of news and
events at the Open Knowledge Foundation.

*Events
* *Open Economics Working Group, City DataParty, Wednesday 8th February.
Full details here <http://openeconomics.net/2012/02/03/city-dataparty-3/>
* The second *#OpenDataCBG *meet-up will take place in the Panton Arms in
Cambridge on 27th February. Visit the meet-up
page<http://www.meetup.com/OpenKnowledgeFoundation/Cambridge/593762/>for
more information!

<http://www.doodle.com/d3yprq77zr64zd7w>
*Notices
* *We have been nominated to take part in the 'Digital Communities'
category of the Prix Ars
Electronica<http://new.aec.at/prix/en/kategorien/digital-communities/>.
The deadline is March 2nd. Primavera is interested in applying on behalf of
the OKFN, and is seeking collaborators. Get in touch if you'd like to be
involved!
* Applications for the *Panton
Fellowships<http://pantonprinciples.org/panton-fellowships/>
*are open until February 24th. Apply now!
* The *Open Development Working Group* has been reborn. The group will be
working on an ambitious project to create a European Aid Data Network. See
below for more details, or sign-up to the mailing list.
<http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-development>
* Interested in seeing *OpenSpending* in your own language? Contact
lucy.chambers [at] okfn.org and sign up for an account on www.transifex.net.
Any translations completed by 10th Feb will be featured in the next
release!

*Further Updates:

OKFest
*Details of OKFest 2012 will be announced tomorrow - watch this space!
*
#OpenDataLDN
*The meet-up was a huge success last week, with 60+ participants and lots
of new ideas and interesting projects shared. You can follow the blog post
and twitter trail for the event
here<http://blog.okfn.org/2012/02/01/wikimedia-and-new-collaborations-at-third-opendataldn-meetup-in-london/>
.

*Open Development working group*
A proposal was submitted last year to create a European Aid Data Network to
the EuropeAid budget line of the European Commission, led by AidInfo in the
UK, with Partos (NL), FORS (CZ), ACEP (PT), IGO (PL) and the Open Knowledge
Foundation (UK). The partners will hear in March if they have been invited
to make a full application for funding, but in the meantime have agreed to
start work on some networking actions in any case. This includes:

   - Agreeing on the open-development OKFN list as the main co-ordinating
   point;


   - Getting web presence set up for the open-development list to link to
   upcoming events


   - Carrying out a short mapping survey of open-development list members
   and others to identify existing skills and strengths, and needs, around
   open-development information, events and resources.

Work of the network has two foci: a) coordination and networking within the
open aid data community and b) outreach to NGOs to raise awareness and
offer training on open aid data

The group is also looking to identify events coming up in Europe this year
to link *open development *conversations too. Thinking about possible
seminars to explore what vision of open development is.

*Open Economics Working Group
*
* Follow-up from the Economics Hackday can be found
here<http://openeconomics.net/2012/02/01/open-economics-hackday/>,
with the updated dataset:
http://thedatahub.org/dataset/yourtopia-italy<http://thedatahub.org/dataset/yourtopia-italy>
* Vote on the date for the Energy and Climate Hackday
here<http://www.doodle.com/d3yprq77zr64zd7w>


*Public Domain Works*
* The Public Domain Day in Paris* *was a great success. Planning on
organizing a second round OpenGLAM event.
* Open Metadata Handbook: preliminary draft is complete, soliciting
relevant people to contribute.
* Public Domain Calculators: new calculators coming + get the
publicdomainworks.net website up and running with Etienne

*Open Linguistics*
We drafted a Linguistic Linked Open Data (LLOD) cloud diagram:
http://linguistics.okfn.org/resources/llod/ and are working on realizing
and improving it. The copyright stays with the group and it is cc-by

*Open Biblio*
* See http://openbiblio.net/ for blogs from Mark, Adrian Pohl and Naomi,
and http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/ for Peter Murray-Rust's blog
* Sprint / meet-up to be held next month in Edinburgh, Hackathon in June in
London or nearby
* Discussion on encouraging community, using BibKN as way of directing
people to the different tools and datasets
* Lots of work on BibServer and BibSoup by Etienne, Mark M and PMR, BibSoup
to be launched next week
* Presenting to a number of Research Councils soon
* Interacts with Open Science - other projects should get in touch if they
think the technology to get and parse data might be useful (and how could
it not?)

*Open Data Manual*
* Text of version 1.0 is ready to freeze. After this there will be a big
translation push, so linguists get ready!

*School of Data*
* Coming soon, keep your eyes on the OKFN blog for more details.

Thanks guys, keep your news and updates coming! The next bulletin will come
round on February 20th.

Kind regards,
Laura
*
*
-- 
Laura Newman
Community Coordinator
Open Knowledge Foundation
http://okfn.org/
Skype: lauranewmanonskype
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