[okfn-labs] Open Data Maker Night

Thu Aug 8 21:28:49 UTC 2013

So sorry – I somehow managed to completely miss Rufus’ response, and
recreated an inferior version of the schedule!

Good luck with gathering critical mass. I’ll gauge interest with any
Lisbon NGO people I can think of – I think this sort of event has
plenty that should be of interesting to NGO types!

Best,
Andy

On 8 Aug 2013 20:04, "Olaf Veerman" <olaf.veerman at flipside.org> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> Thanks a lot for your suggestions and ideas. They will be very helpful when organizing the meetup. Especially something as simple as the agenda you proposed will help us structure the evening.
>
> We are aiming at Thursday the 29th, but I want to confirm if we have a critical mass, considering it is still summer. I will get back to this list in a couple of days with more details.
>
> If there is anybody from Lisbon on this list,  it would be great to get in touch.
>
> Thanks again for your input.
> best,
> Olaf
>
> On Aug 8, 2013 6:06 PM, "Andy Lulham" <a.lulham at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Olaf,
>>
>> I went along to my first open data maker night on Tuesday – it was
>> ace! Just to give an idea of how it worked on the night (from a
>> punter’s perspective):
>>
>>  * arrive and mingle
>>  * general intro to the night from Rufus. This included getting
>> everyone online with wireless password, getting everyone into the
>> shared google doc via a custom bitly link. *5-10 mins*.
>>  * brief spoken intros from everyone attending – name, interests,
>> special skills. *Max 30 seconds each*. Each person also adds this info
>> to the google doc.
>>  * pitches from attendees who had specific project ideas, or discrete
>> bits of work that could be done on the night. *3-5 mins each*. Brief
>> info on each also added to the google doc.
>>
>>  * self-organise to discuss, get coding etc
>>  * eat some pizza / drink some fizzy pop / have a chat
>>  * continue coding, then very informally (like, as groups decide they
>> are ready) get on the projector and present what’s been achieved!
>>
>> My own experience, I mostly discussed project ideas with people
>> (really useful), but got to help one guy set up a node.js project
>> locally, and together we submitted a pull request closing an issue, so
>> that felt like some progress. Other people got loads more done – felt
>> like an evening well-spent!
>>
>> Hope that’s helpful,
>> Andy
>> --
>> Andy Lulham (@andylolz)
>>
>>
>> On 8 August 2013 11:48, Anders Pedersen <anders.pedersen at okfn.org> wrote:
>> > Hi Olaf,
>> >
>> > This is great to hear. I am looping in the Labs list, as others might have
>> > ideas to chip in.
>> >
>> > On 8 August 2013 04:54, Olaf Veerman <olaf.veerman at flipside.org> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi Anders,
>> >> As we talked about in DC, we're planning to organize a meetup in Lisbon
>> >> around Open Data on Thursday August 29. On the OFKNLabs page, I read about
>> >> Open Data Maker Nights and it seems to suit what we want for such a night.
>> >
>> >
>> > Sounds great!
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> To focus people's time and energy, I'd like to prepare some tasks for
>> >> people with different skills and different skill levels. On the data
>> >> wrangling side, we can propose to take a look at some of the spending data
>> >> we saw in DC, but I know we'll have some designers + developers as well. Do
>> >> you have any ideas for this, or can somebody else at OKFN provide us some
>> >> tips on organizing a Maker Night?
>> >
>> >
>> > The join page of Labs lists the current issues and ideas for new projects.
>> > That might be helpful for finding stuff to hack on.
>> >
>> > As for guides, this doc from the London Maker Night both includes various
>> > project specific guides (e.g. for OpenSpending) as well as examples of stuff
>> > people have been working on at previous Maker Nights.
>> >
>> > Really looking forward to hear more about Lisbon Maker Night!
>> >
>> >>
>> >> best,
>> >> Olaf
>> >>
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