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

Fri May 6 16:26:54 BST 2011

Hey hey,

All good, hoping this should be good to go by Monday.

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Friedrich Lindenberg
<friedrich.lindenberg at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hi Lucy,
>
> thanks for drawing up this great workshop description! This sounds
> pretty perfect and I have little to add to it, although I was
> wondering whether it would be a useful alternative to just focus on
> doing one spending story throughout the day: one set of data; loading
> it, qa, whale-hunting, visualization etc. I'm not entirely sure how
> well this would scale with many people, but maybe we can invite a
> friendly journalist to do this as a side-track?

@Jonathan - do you have any 'friendly' data-savvy journalists in your
back pocket that may be up for this (workshop - pre OKCon, now set for
29th June)?

Lucy

> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org> wrote:
>> Ok, getting somewhere now!
>>
>>>>> There may be a CKAN-dev workshop on the 28th, does that pose any
>>>>> problems Friedrich? Are you going to have to be in two places at once?
>>>>
>>>> I wouldn't do them on the same day, the target groups (both hacker and non-hacker overlap) and it would be very nice to have either team see some of what the other does. So how about the 28th for OpenSpending and the 29th for CKAN?
>>>
>>> +1 (also could you provide asap an abstract text for publication?)
>>
>> Ok, is there any reason we need them that way round. I had initially
>> suggested 29th for OpenSpending (To allow for a 2-day hackday on the
>> Monday and Tuesday that would not run into the weekend) and 28th for
>> CKAN.
>
> No, lets just place them the way its the most convenient for you.
>
>> @ Friedrich - if you want to be at the CKAN one as well, could someone
>> else run the hackday for the day that overlaps with CKAN?
>
> I'm easy: don't mind if this overlaps with CKAN, it just means we need
> to find two venues. Shouldn't be impossible, though.
>
>>> Could you please ping me asap there is a short abstract about the workshop ready to be published?
>
> IMO all that is missing is a location,
>
> @Daniel: do you have anything in mind?
>
> - Friedrich
>

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