[okfn-discuss] OKFN & Environment Data

Fri Oct 12 11:23:50 UTC 2012

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 1:18 PM, James Smith <james at floppy.org.uk> wrote:

> I can't speak for AMEE (any more), but this is unlikely to come from
> within the company. Adoption of the data by external organisations
> interested in openness is the only way it's likely to happen at this point,
> unfortunately.
>
>
Do you think that AMEE might be able to provide pointers to relevant URLs
where someone else could find descriptions of / links to the openly
licensed data they (re-)publish?

> I think the main thing for the moment is getting the ball rolling on some
> of these different activities. Ultimately it might make sense to do this as
> a coalition of organisations and initiatives who share an interest in
> opening up and reusing CO2 data.
>
> I think that's probably the most likely way forward - there are many
> organisations that could do bits of the effort. I guess the core question
> is whether there is enough interest within OKFN to get working on some bits
> of it. If it's just us, then it'll stall pretty quickly given our other
> hats.
>

I believe we're planning a dedicated sprint focusing on energy, the
environment and climate data with OKFN Labs. This is based on work we did
with Europe's Energy last year: http://energy.publicdata.eu/ee/index.html

> Anyone else interested at all?
>

+1 - would be great to hear from others interested in these areas/issues!

J.

> cheers,
> James
>
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