[open-data-day] Open Data Day - Mountain View, CA [Open Science/Data Education Course Sprint]

Wed Feb 6 05:44:33 GMT 2013

Hey All-  Here's the Eventbrite information about the Open Science Course
Sprint.

http://opensciencecoursesprint.eventbrite.com/

We'll be making a blog post before sharing more widely, but please take a
look to see if you'd like to take part.  Those of you on this list who are
in the Bay Area are invited to the Creative Commons HQ in Mountain View.
Ping me with questions.

Thanks!

Billy

On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Mike West <mw at data.io> wrote:

> I use CouchDB running on the Pi to show how clouds and hard drives and
> other networking things work, so if you point me to any topic that you
> are really into - I can probably make it part of the project. We're
> lucky that Canada and the US has so much open data relative to other
> countries.
>
> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Billy Meinke
> <billy.meinke at creativecommons.org> wrote:
> > Ah, I was hoping to find people working on the Pi for Open Data Day.  I'm
> > going to be posting a wiki/planning document around the course sprint in
> the
> > next couple of weeks and would love for you to see if there's room to
> work
> > together on this, Mike.  Thanks for chiming in.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Mike West <mw at data.io> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Billy,
> >>
> >> I am going to run a Raspberry Pi demo / learning table as my
> >> contribution to the Toronto Event. Looking for some ideas that bring
> >> using the Pi around to something related to Open Data and this looks
> >> like a great way.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Mike West
> >>
> >> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Emma Irwin <emma.irwin at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> > That all sounds incredibly exciting. Such value in open science .
> >> > As a side, the majority of our participants for Open Data day will be
> >> > girls
> >> > from CAGIS (Canadian Assoc for Girls in Science) and I know their
> leader
> >> > would be super interested in this , and so will follow your progress.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Feb 1, 2013, at 9:34 AM, Billy Meinke
> >> > <billy.meinke at creativecommons.org>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Hey Emma-  Yes, glad you mentioned the Webmaker/youth side of Open
> >> > Science/Data.  Though it'd not fully sketched up yet, one of the
> modules
> >> > we
> >> > will build out will likely involve reaching out to the science
> community
> >> > by
> >> > finding citizen science projects, the next step beyond that involving
> >> > designing experiments using an open framework like PyBossa.  This kind
> >> > of
> >> > thing is still a little beyond what typical youth can do on their own,
> >> > but
> >> > exposure to open tools for science (and developing more user-friendly
> >> > tools,
> >> > too) is always a good thing.
> >> >
> >> > Ping me aside this list if you think more collaboration can happen
> >> > around
> >> > Open Data Day.  Thanks :)
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Emma Irwin <emma.irwin at gmail.com>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> thanks looks interesting Billy, any intention/partnerships around
> >> >> teaching
> >> >> Open Science to youth/kids (Webmaker)
> >> >> We're part of Open Data day Victoria , bringing kids and youth in to
> >> >> make
> >> >> things with Open Data w/Webmaker Tools & Wiki maps.  If there are any
> >> >> small
> >> >> pieces/ideas around we could take to kids on this day that relate,
> let
> >> >> me
> >> >> know.
> >> >>
> >> >> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Billy Meinke
> >> >> <billy.meinke at creativecommons.org> wrote:
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Hey All #ODHD13 Peoples-
> >> >>>
> >> >>> I wanted to drop in and announce an alternative to the many
> code-heavy
> >> >>> hackathons that will be happening on/around Open Data Day.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> I'm working with a few people at PLoS/OKFN/P2PU to put together an
> >> >>> "Introduction to Open Science" course on the Peer to Peer University
> >> >>> platform.  The module plan is being developed, and I'll be posting
> the
> >> >>> organizing documents for any interested parties to check out, but it
> >> >>> would
> >> >>> great to have local and remote participants help flesh out the
> course
> >> >>> during
> >> >>> a "course sprint" on Fri Feb 22nd or Sat Feb 23rd.  The hope is that
> >> >>> course
> >> >>> will be ready to roll for Open Education Week in March, though the
> >> >>> primary
> >> >>> build-out will take place on Open Data Day.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Details have been posted to the events wiki here:
> >> >>> http://wiki.opendataday.org/MountainView2013
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Feel free to get in contact with me if you have resources that could
> >> >>> be
> >> >>> included or ideas for activities that would align with the basics of
> >> >>> Open
> >> >>> Science/Data.  If you're in the Bay Area, I'm also entertaining the
> >> >>> idea of
> >> >>> hosting in-person attendees here at the Creative Commons HQ in
> >> >>> Mountain
> >> >>> View.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Best,
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Billy
> >> >>>
> >> >>> --
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> >> >>> Science and Data Intern
> >> >>> Creative Commons
> >> >>>
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