[open-data-day] Patting yourself on the back, sharing stories & an apology

[Herb Lainchbury]

Hey David,

First off.... congratulations to you and Lauren.  You'll be amazing
parents.  Doing things on his own schedule at such a young age is a good
sign.  He's an independent thinker.  ;-)

I will post our projects ( Victoria, BC, Canada ) on the wiki shortly.  We
had a very enjoyable day, generated some amazing ideas and developed some
great projects.  Lots of new faces again which is awesome.  People love
playing with data, love doing something good for others and love learning
more about how government works.

Thanks to everyone who helped make the day a world wide success.

Herb

On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 10:52 PM, David Eaves <david at eaves.ca> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> David Eaves here. Open data day is a very decentralized event, with really
> all the work laying in the hands of local organizers who find the space,
> rally people and try to make the day as fun as possible. We don't have
> much, if any organization, no boss and no central authority who is going to
> say thank you. But I'm hoping that each of you will say congratulations and
> thank you to one another. I know I'm intensely grateful to see that there
> are so many others out there that care about this issue, that want to
> connect, learn, meet new people, have fun and, of course, make things(!).
> So from me at least, thank you to everyone who is on this list for
> participating, caring and helping grow this event.
>
> Second, I'd really like to write a blog post (I can imagine other would
> to) about some of the projects people worked on, whether they got completed
> or not. If everyone who is on this list shared at least one (maybe the
> coolest) project they saw at their hackathon, that would be a great way to
> share stories and learn from one another. Another great thing to do would
> be to add some description to the 2012 open data day projects page<http://www.opendataday.org/wiki/Opendata_Day_2011_Projects>.
> At the very minimum though, please do email stuff around to this group so
> we can learn from one another.
>
> Finally, some of you may have noticed I became conspicuously absent on the
> day. I want to apologize to  everyone. My partner went into labour on
> Friday night and so by early morning Saturday it was obvious that my open
> data day was going to be spent with her. Our baby was 11 days over due so
> we really thought that we'd be in the clear by Dec 3rd... but our baby had
> other plans. The good news is while the labour did last 35 hours and there
> were some tough moment, baby and boy are doing well!
>
> I can't wait to loop back with people - and please, do send around
> descriptions of your favourite projects.
>
> Best,
> David
>
>
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Herb Lainchbury
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