[open-data-day] ODHD14 Netherlands initiative is about to start

Mon Apr 29 23:35:29 BST 2013

Amazing work Ton and fellow community members. Thanks for pushing the rest of us to keep building our own communities in preparation for Feb 2014. 

Best of luck!

Mary Beth

On 2013-04-29, at 11:42 AM, Ton Zijlstra <ton.zijlstra at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Earlier when we discussed setting the date for next year's International Open Data Day already, I wrote how we (me and 3 colleagues) planned to arrange for teams in 38 cities in the Netherlands to participate on that day. These are the 38 most populated cities in the country.
> 
> We are now about to launch the initiative. On http://opendataday.nl you can see the site we are launching (in Dutch obviously but you will get the gist of it with machine translation)
> 
> Community members in five cities already have committed to organizing a local event, so that on our map (http://opendatadag.nl/de-38-steden/) some markers are already green. There's also a flyer (http://opendatadag.nl/download-flyer/), in Dutch as well.
> 
> In May we will start reaching out to various groups in the national Open Data community, to explore how to bring them on board. First appointments (such as with Waag Society, a key player in the various Open Data challenges that have taken place) have been made. 
> 
> In cities where there is currently no local community around open data, we will start bringing people together actively. So that all those 38 cities will have a local community by the time we get to February 2014.
> 
> Hopefully you are already looking forward to International Open Data Day 2014 as much as we do! :)
> 
> best,
> 
> Ton
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