[okfn-help] [psi-workers] Rules + website for Open Data Challenge

[Jonathan Gray]

For me the 'you have to team up with someone in another country' angle
is quite nice as it means people in different countries will have to
talk and work together (which is partly what the competition seeks to
encourage).

Re: open source + open data in apps, what about 'we strongly encourage
entrants to use open licenses for code, content and data'?

J.

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Federico Morando
<federico.morando at polito.it> wrote:
> On 03/24/2011 01:08 PM, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>>
>> Some key ideas for rules:
>>
>> * Pan-European angle is strongly encouraged
>
> I surely agree. We may even say that you should use data from at least 2
> member states and/or that your app shoul make sense in at least two member
> states (e.g. in London and Paris).
>>
>> * Entries for apps must come from team which contains groups/individuals
>> from at least 2 EU member states
>
> I don't think that this is necessary: let's put constraints on the apps/data
> (as you did above and below) and not on the institution/organization/group
> that proposes them... It's a call for apps, not a EU project ;-)
>>
>> * Repurposed apps are allowed (i.e. an app that exists for London can be
>> expanded to work for Paris + Torino and entered)
>
> OK, sure!
>>
>> * Apps must be open source
>> * Core data must be freely reusable and derived data must be openly
>> licensed
>
> I'm not entirely sure: we may say that this is a plus in the evaluation, but
> is it a requirement? What needs to the open are the public data (in input),
> not necessarily the code/data of the re-users ("derived data")...
> [Personally, I'm sympathetic with this rule - in particular the part about
> open source code: it's just that I think it deserves an explicit and open
> discussion.]
>
> Thanks and best regards,
>
> Federico
>
>
>



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