[okfn-help] WDMMG / OpenSpending workshop pre-OKCon

Tue May 3 13:23:32 BST 2011

Hi Friedrich,

Great stuff...

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Friedrich Lindenberg
<friedrich.lindenberg at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hi Lucy,
>
> that's a great idea - just wondering: is this complementary to or
> intended as a replacement of the hackday/week we thought about having
> around OKCon?

I think it is the replacement:
@ Daniel - can you confirm?
If not - who should I contact to see if the hackday is still going
ahead re date clashes etc? I'm presuming something should be done
fairly soon to organise the hackday if it hasn't already been planned
and we are still thinking of going ahead with it!

> I think it'd be really good for the different teams to
> sit down together and churn out some nice features. We don't get
> together often enough ;-)

Awesome - so which teams would you like to brainstorm with - if you
want to let me know, I will get the discussion going so that we can
get a rough program together...

> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org> wrote:
>> Who would be the best person to lead the workshop?
>
> I'm happy to do it, unless Carsten or Rufus wants to.

Yey!

>> What topics should be covered at the workshop?
>
> I'd make this fairly practical, with sections on:
>
>  * Financial data types, sources, acquisition
>  * Loading things, best formats, etc.
>  * Visualization, Exploration
>  * Story telling with the data
>
>> Preferred date?
>
> * (any, live there)

I'm going to pencil in the day before the main conference here (Weds
29th June), I haven't heard back from CKAN so I want to avoid having a
gap before the conference.

>> How should we publicise it? (It will need to be sorted fairly soon so
>> people can make travel arrangements)
>
> I think we can announce this on the wdmmg, offenerhaushalt and german
> open data lists which would fill a nice room.

Awesome, ok - so let's get this list of brainstormers together,
brainstorm and send out a rough program asap!

> - Friedrich
>

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