[okfn-discuss] Bulletin Update: Open Data news & events

Mon Mar 5 15:57:52 UTC 2012

Hi all,

Plenty of exciting stuff going on in the Open Knowledge Foundation Network
as always. A key highlight is the first *ever* OKFN open data meet-up in
Scotland, next Tuesday 13th March. Read on for more...

## Events
* The first ever OKFN open data meet-up in Scotland: #OpenDataEDB takes
place at the Ghillie Dhu on Tuesday 13th March. More info & sign-up
here<http://www.meetup.com/OpenKnowledgeFoundation/Edinburgh-GB/618812/>
.
* OpenBiblio are having a coding and planning sprint in Edinburgh, Mon 12th
- Weds 14th March.
* OpenBiblio Hackathon, 12th-14th June in London - save the date!
* FLOSSIE 2012 - a free two-day event for women who work with, or are
interested in, Software Libre/FOSS in Open Data, Knowledge Digital Arts and
Education. 25/26 May at QMUL, East London, UK. See
http://www.flossie.org<http://www.flossie.org/openconf/>

## News
* DM2E officially kicked-off last Thursday.
 * The Open Economics Group announced the support from the Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation: <http://bit.ly/xQQNNE> Congratulations guys!
* More environmental datasets needed in the datahub! Please contribute at
http://econ.okfnpad.org/data-party
* Improved functionality for OpenBiblio:
http://openbiblio.net/2012/02/21/json-ld-bibjson/, thanks to Mark
McGillivray's coding efforts.
* #OpenDataCBG was a great success last week. Around 25 people gathered in
the Panton Arms in Cambridge to hear 5 lightning talks and engage in lively
discussion.
* About 50 people gathered in London and online for the Energy and Climate
Hackday, sponsored by AMEE. Ed Hogg from the Department of Energy and
Climate Change gave a presentation, and people worked on:
1) Carbon Budget Challenge I - Historical Trends in Carbon Dioxide Emissions
2) Carbon Budget Challenge II - Future Projections
3) Phone app for World Bank missions and to communicate local climate change
4) Yourtopia 2
5) Land-use Change and Forestry (Berlin)
More details here: <http://econ.okfnpad.org/climate-energy-hackday>.

All in all a great but busy fortnight for open data and the Open Knowledge
Foundation! If you have information that you would like to be included in
the next Open Data Bulletin (to be circulated on 19th March), drop me an
email at laura.newman [@] okfn.org.

Thanks all!
Laura

-- 
Laura Newman
Community Coordinator
Open Knowledge Foundation
http://okfn.org/
Skype: lauranewmanonskype
Twitter: @Newmanlk
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