[open-energy] Draft 'about' text

[Jonathan Gray]

Amazing! Thanks for all your suggestions John.

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:38 PM,  <John.Allen at ec.europa.eu> wrote:
> For the paragraph about the source of the data, some suggestions:
>
> 1) heading to read "Where are the data from" (ie not "where is" - "data" is
> a plural)

I understand there's a whole flourishing debate about this [1]. So as
not to pick sides, I've changed this to "What are the data sources for
this?". ;-)

[1] See e.g. http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/jul/16/data-plural-singular

> 2) for the first sentence:
> "The Europe's Energy project is mainly based on data from Eurostat, the
> statistical office of the European Union, which provides official statistics
> on European Union Member States." (could write "EU" for European Union)

Done.

> and
>
> 3) througout: write "Member States" with capital M, capital S.

Done.

> 4) in credits mention also Pekka Loesoenen for Eurostat and, if possible,
> write "Eurostat, European Commission" (we are a Commission DG, like INFSO).

My apologies! Pekka was in there, but must have been inadvertently
been put into clipboard and not pasted in when I was reshuffling the
list. I was deciding whether or not to group people by affiliation
before deciding that alphabetical was easiest.

Now fixed.

All the best,

Jonathan


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> From: open-energy-bounces at lists.okfn.org on behalf of Jonathan Gray
> Sent: Wed 02/02/2011 19:46
> To: Open Energy Visualization and Data project
> Subject: [open-energy] Draft 'about' text
>
> Following is a very brief draft 'about' text for the website. If
> anyone has any comments or suggestions for additions or amendments
> please let us know ASAP, as this will be translated into several
> different EU languages in the next few hours:
>
> http://wiki.okfn.org/Europes_Energy
>
> Copied below (sans links) for your convenience!
>
> All the best,
>
> Jonathan
>
> ### What is the Europe's Energy project?
>
> Countries around the world are taking measures to cut greenhouse gas
> emissions in order to mitigate climate change. Member states of the
> European Union have agreed on targets aimed at significantly reducing
> greenhouse gas emissions by cutting energy consumption by 20% and
> increasing the share of renewables in the energy mix to 20% by 2020.
> The Europe's Energy project gives users a set of visual tools to put
> these targets into context and to understand and compare how progress
> is being made towards them in different countries.
>
> ### How can I keep touch or get involved?
>
> You can sign up to our email announcement list to receive occasional
> updates about what we're up to. If you have a comment or suggestion,
> you can email us at energy at okfn.org. Work in this area is ongoing and
> we are always interested in having extra pairs of eyes and extra pairs
> of hands to help out! If you'd like to get involved, please come and
> say hello on our open-energy discussion list, or ping @okfn or @jwyg
> on Twitter.
>
> ### Where is the data from?
>
> The Europe's Energy project is mainly based on data from Eurostat, the
> largest collection of statistical information on European member
> states. The breakdown of imports is from IEA. Colour coding for
> geothermal is based on LCA-data of Karlsdottir et al (2010). Colour
> coding for nuclear energy uses the average of the LCA-estimates of
> British Energy (2005), Weisser (2007), Fthenakis & Kim (2007), ISA
> (2006). All other LCA-conversion factors are from EUmayors.
>
> ### Who is behind this?
>
> Europe's Energy is a mini-project of the Open Knowledge Foundation,
> put together in just under two weeks by Gregor Aisch, Jonathan Gray,
> Dirk Heine, Friedrich Lindenberg, Nathaniel Scheer and Guo Xu. It was
> supported by the European funded LOD2 project, which will bring
> together open datasets from local, regional and national public bodies
> across Europe for all to reuse. It is based on ideas that came out of
> the London Eurostat Hackday event in December 2010.
>
> A big thank you to all of the following people and projects for all of
> their help and support: John Allen (Eurostat), Sören Auer (University
> of Leipzig), Stefano Bertolo (European Commission), Margit Beutler
> (Fraunhofer Fokus), Judit Bognar, Francis Irving (ScraperWiki),
> Catherine Kunkel, Dana Manescu (Press Office, European Council), the
> Noun Project, Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou (Regards Citoyens) and Uli
> Schöber (Independent Designer).
>
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>
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