[okfn-labs] Gauging hack day interest: London and One Health

Thu Nov 22 21:13:08 UTC 2012

Hi Jenny, 

Thats brilliant, thank you. I was thinking a bit further into new year (need to get hold of some of the bloomsbury researchers etc). Please feel free to add me to any distro lists for that hack, and I'll see if I can help too!

I'm hoping to find a venue in a college, maybe RVC (which has a nice museum of veterinary medicine which would make for good backspace), to try and get more interest from the researchers.

I shared one hack idea, which is a kind of research scrapbook back in Sept [1 (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rvF4cIuvx2QpO8uUoqTCKG48h2ncYnp3k4OdX9_V69w/edit)], which is one idea as an example. And have setup a doc for the hack day planning too [2 (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qdBQlkRXOntMhXOvkqfgKqdYCXdY2b6D2VT_-o8lwWg/edit)].

[1]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rvF4cIuvx2QpO8uUoqTCKG48h2ncYnp3k4OdX9_V69w/edit
[2]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qdBQlkRXOntMhXOvkqfgKqdYCXdY2b6D2VT_-o8lwWg/edit

Best,
-Z

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On Thursday, 22 November 2012 at 21:01, Jenny Molloy wrote:

> Hi Zach
> 
> +1 from the open science working group! I'm also a little involved in planning the NHS hack day, which has a more applied health focus but it might be worth avoiding the weekend of 26-27 Jan as the main catchment area for that is Oxford/London. 
> 
> The working group were planning an open science hack day towards the start of next year anyway so would be happy to join forces with you.
> 
> Jenny
> 
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Zach Beauvais <z.beauvais at gmail.com (mailto:z.beauvais at gmail.com)> wrote:
> > Hi Labs folk, 
> > 
> > I am possibly planning a hack event in the new year in London on the subject of One Health. [1][2]
> > 
> > The general gist is to bring together researchers from some of the Bloomsbury colleges [3] and developers/info architects as an introduction to the world of hackdays and to foster some relationships between devs and epidemiologists, researchers, PhD candidates and others. 
> > 
> > There are massively important initiatives happening in the world of health,[4] and a lot of the data around is messy or under-used, and I think a hack day would be a good forum to kick off ideas and show the interest of open-source devs. The kinds of themes include: 
> > 
> > * zoonotic diseases (diseases passed from animals to people)
> > * emerging diseases
> > * climate change
> > * urbanisation
> > * movement of livestalk and wildlife in changing environments
> > 
> > and more...
> > 
> > My wife (doing her PhD in epidemiology at RVC) brought this up when I ran hack days for a startup, and said she wished she could get that kind of applied focus on some of the problems they're working on. Why not? It sounds like a good challenge, and I'm sure there is interest out there. 
> > 
> > So, would you be interested in a hack day, in London possibly around Bloomsbury, to work on diverse data sources?
> > 
> > [1]: http://www.cdc.gov/onehealth/ 
> > [2]: http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/
> > [3]: http://www.bloomsbury.ac.uk/
> > [4]: http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/44327/
> > 
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