[open-data-day] [okfn-discuss] Next Saturday (November 19th): OKFN Hack Day

Tue Nov 15 16:34:29 GMT 2011

Thanks Jonathan, this sounds great. An extra credit task :-)
I've added what you've said to the wiki (
http://wiki.okfn.org/Community_Dashboard_Hackday_Nov_2011), and i'll start
planning out tasks for the day itself.

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Kat Braybrooke <kat.braybrooke at okfn.org>wrote:

> Jonathan - that sounds like a great idea, and exactly the sort of thing we
> imagined adding to the Community Dashboard (soon to be the OKF homepage!)
>
> Tom, we should certainly talk about adding this to the Dashboard at the
> hackathon!
>
> Kat
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> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>wrote:
>
>> (cc'ing open-data-day list)
>>
>> This looks great Tom! :-)
>>
>> To coincide with Open Data Day, we were thinking of running an 'Open
>> Data Census' to map open data initiatives around the world.
>>
>> http://www.opendataday.org/
>>
>> This might be as simple as capturing a photo, a URL, or a brief
>> message on a map - to give a sense of all the interesting open data
>> stuff that is going on around the world.
>>
>> Do you think we could use the fruits of your OKFN Community Dashboard
>> sprint to help do this?
>>
>> J.
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Tom Rees <tom.rees at okfn.org> wrote:
>> > Hey everybody,
>> > Next Saturday (November the 19th) we'll be gathering as many developers
>> and
>> > designers as possible from noon at the Barbican Centre in London to take
>> > advantage of their free wi-fi and to do some hacking :-)
>> > If you can't make it in person, you're welcome to join us online in
>> #okfn on
>> > FreeNode. We'd like as many people as possible!
>> > Our goal is to build a Community Dashboard for deployment on the OKFN
>> main
>> > site. The requirements are happily fuzzy - we're imagining a Google Maps
>> > mashup with information about blog posts, latest news from working
>> groups,
>> > deployments of software projects, activity on the Data Hub, ... you get
>> the
>> > picture. The Dashboard will be a one-stop shop to see everything going
>> on
>> > across the Foundation, and to help people feel involved in the wider
>> > community. Because we can build anything we like, there's plenty of
>> > opportunity for everybody to influence how it turns out.
>> > So please come and join us! We've created a Meetup page to host the
>> event,
>> > so you can let us know if you are coming: http://meetu.ps/5j8tC
>> > - Tom
>> > PS. The in-person event will run approximately from 12 o'clock to Pub
>> > o'clock. Maybe we'll order some pizza.
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