[okfn-help] Watching #opendata on Twitter?

[Jonathan Gray]

*Fantastic*! Think we should definitely archive #opendata hashtag.

Tim: could you perhaps look into setting this up for us?

J.

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Tim McNamara
<paperless at timmcnamara.co.nz> wrote:
> There are some quite a good open source tool in the emergency management
> community for handling this kind of stuff.
> I recommend http://swiftly.org/sweeper.html.
> We could use this to collect tweets (& and lots of other content) and should
> be able to allocate tasks without duplication. It uses some neat machine
> learning to make life easier over time.
>
>
> On 6 July 2011 19:10, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 10:35 PM, Kaitlyn (Kat) Braybrooke
>> <kat.braybrooke at okfn.org> wrote:
>> > Let me know if you want me to find anything specifically!
>>
>> If you spot new initiatives then it would be very useful to try to
>> catch up with them. Specifically:
>>
>>  * New data catalogues (e.g. country X or city Y has launched a new
>> data catalogue) - action:
>>    - add it to datacatalogs.org and email ckan-discuss list to let
>> them know you've done so.
>>    - invite representatives from new initiative to open-government list
>>  * Any cool new projects - action:
>>    - Tweet or email them, asking for guest blog post, with Theodora
>> and blog at okfn.org in cc
>>    - invite them to relevant mailing lists (e.g. open-government,
>> wdmmg-discuss or ckan-discuss)
>>
>> Does this make sense?
>>
>> Lucy: do you also follow #opendata?
>>
>> J.
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Gray
>>
>> Community Coordinator
>> The Open Knowledge Foundation
>> http://blog.okfn.org
>>
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>
>



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