[okfn-labs] Maker Nights

[Adi Eyal]

Thanks.

So I've been holding a bunch of weekly Thursday night meet-ups, four
so far. I call them unhackathons though Rufus introduced me to Maker
Nights (which is a cool name) I might change it to that. Similar to
the Maker Nights, I've been trying to create a community of
practitioners who actually do stuff. Unfortunatelym I find it quite
difficult to get buy-in. We've had a few interesting meet-ups where
people have come and demonstrated work that they've or we discussed
various ideas around data, but it hasn't amounted to much. I'm not
quite sure how to transition to actual code writing. I've put together
a couple of projects, [1], [2] for people to contribute to. The latter
is an API on top of existing elections data which I thought would be
useful infrastructure for a family of interesting elections related
applications. I've also put together an ideas board to post ideas on
[3]. There just seems to be a hump that I'm struggling to overcome,
moving from talking to doing.

Community building is quite tough and I would appreciate any advice
this list has regarding how to make it happen.

[1] https://github.com/Code4SA/medicine-price-registry
[2] https://github.com/Code4SA/elections-api
[3] http://code4sa.hackdash.org/

Adi

On 18 November 2013 18:26, todd.d.robbins at gmail.com
<todd.d.robbins at gmail.com> wrote:
> What do you have in mind Adi?
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> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 5:19 AM, Adi Eyal <adi at code4sa.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi All
>>
>> Apologies for the stupid question but does this mailing list also
>> cater for discussions on Maker Nights? I'm in need of advice.
>>
>> Adi
>>
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-- 
Adi Eyal
Director
Code for South Africa
Promoting informed decision-making

phone: +27 78 014 2469
skype: adieyalcas
linkedin: http://za.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Adi/Eyal
web: http://www.code4sa.org
twitter: @soapsudtycoon

For more information on how to participate in the open data community
in South Africa, go to: http://www.code4sa.org/#community