[open-economics] Getting involved in a working group

Mon Feb 2 15:09:20 UTC 2015

Hello Gustavo,

First of all I want to thank you for taking up the responsibility of
running this group, it's been inactive for quite a while. Next, I'd like to
say that I'm eager to join the working group which is about developing a
model of an oil contract.

Regards,
Samira
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> Hi everybody,
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> My plans to restart this work group consists in calling back some of the
> guys that were once involved in the group and get new people involved. This
> is a noble cause and it is not an easy task to get people involved. I'm
> sure after we get enough resources (well, mostly human for now), projects
> will start to flow naturally.
>
> Therefore, one of the best ways to get new people is by showing activity
> and showing off great results. Unfortunately, we don't have enough
> resources to fulfil some requests (for now, as far as I know) like this one
> <http://discuss.okfn.org/t/idea-brainstorm/179/2>. Considering our lack of
> resources, I believe our best bet is to try to get some of our old projects
> updated and running.
> Personally, I find the failed bank tracker the best fit because it is
> simpler and I have already thought about what can we do about it
> <http://discuss.okfn.org/t/project-failed-bank-tracker/155/1>. However,
> apparently nobody is interested on that. Please let me know what you think
> of my suggestions - either on the forums or by email.
>
> I also found out that, previously, the group has tried to develop a
> theoretical
> model of an oil contract
> <http://openeconomics.net/2013/10/22/open-model-of-an-oil-contract/>.
> Seems
> that project didn't go very far. Do you think we could revive it? Seems we
> have this  crisis in that industry so it looks like a great opportunity.
> It can be very troublesome, but if we have enough economists in the group,
> I am pretty sure we can develop something very interesting, under CC
> licenses, and prove it using open data. There are a lot of open groups that
> can help us on that, like Open Oil. Open Data, Open Spending and Open
> Government (just a few). The idea would be to try and explain how these
> firms behave in their industry and what really counts when they define
> their prices (or quantities). What are your thoughts?
>
> I also thought about using open data to investigate about the effectiveness
> of the austerity measures the European Union has implemented throughout
> time, since 2008. What do you guys think?
>
> I am running out of ideas for new projects. I would really appreciate your
> help for the time being. Since I am still waiting to get access to our
> social media channels (namely, our Twitter account)  and website, this is
> the perfect time to develop a project and publish it, or even advertise it,
> after I get access to the social media channels. How we will proceed in
> regard to any project we decide to go for, we will discuss that in another
> email. Let's focus on getting a project to get started and then we will
> arrange our necessary conditions.
> Feel free to brought to discuss ANY project you may have think of. Maybe
> something in your daily job or something you can use to extend your
> master's thesis/research paper.
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> Best Regards / Obrigado e com os melhores cumprimentos,
> Gustavo
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