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

Tue May 3 15:08:31 BST 2011

Hi all,

On 03.05.2011, at 14:23, Lucy Chambers wrote:

> 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?

I can not confirm. The "hackday" so far has just an idea: To use these days to bring people together to hack on something interesting, that could be scraping local data from berlin, building new apps or hack on ckan or open spending: Its totally open to the people (e.g. us) to decide. So far I have send mail to people from mozilla drumbeat and RHoK and have talked with some local people if they where interested in doing some thing like a hackday.

So far nothing decided and no clear plans made. 

So I am very happy to see workshops evolving the days before OKCon - i am not sure if this relates to any possible hackday. I think its worth to follow this up.

Daniel

> 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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> Lucy Chambers
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