[open-government] Local Open Government events

[Julian Tait]

Hi Daniel, Ton,

I will endeavour to do the events for the UK. Although I suppose sustainability comes from the ability for people to self promote.

Kind regards

Julian

On 2 Dec 2010, at 14:36, Daniel Dietrich wrote:

> Hi Julian and others,
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> On 25.11.2010, at 23:06, Julian Tait wrote:
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>> Hi Daniel,
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>> I think that the map and calendar are great, is the information collated or can people edit it themselves?
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> right now it is Ton's Calendar but he showed interest to open it and add people as contributors. Would be great to find people to take care to add and update event information for a specific aerea or country. 
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> @Ton: please add me - I will take care for events in Germany.
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> @all: Who wants to jump in? 
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>> 
>> Ideally it would be good to see.
>> 'WHERE?' The map does this but having a list view would also be useful
>> "WHEN?' the calendar already does this although I can imagine that many local events like the Manchester and Sheffield are repeating so might get very busy.
>> 'WHAT?' What form the event takes.
>> 'WHO?' Contact details of the main contact or contacts
>> 'WHY?' Context as to why the events are run and link
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>> Sorry for all the 'Ws'. Potentially there could be a lot of information for one person to deal with so for groups to be able to edit it themselves would be useful.
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> About the Ws: I absolutely agree that this makes sense. 
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>> I think the mapping project is essential as it could give an indication as to the health and spread of the Open Data Community.
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>> Cheers
>> 
>> Julian
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>> On 25 Nov 2010, at 20:26, Daniel Dietrich wrote:
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>>> Hi Jonathan and others,
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>>> I think we ll agree that the ogd community needs to share information about events. With the ogd mapping* project we discussed some of this earlier here on the list. For the idea of the ogd mapping project I created this wikipage.
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>>> http://wiki.okfn.org/wg/government/mapping 
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>>> Back to the calendar:
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>>> As a start I just used Ton's great google calendar of ogd events and put it online here
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>>> http://opengovernmentdata.org/calendar/
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>>> this is - of course - far a way from a good solution. 
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>>> I would recommend to keep things simple. So I opt to start with a single calendar (we can still separate into different calendars later) and to use a simple technology that a lot of people are familiar with, such as google calendar.
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>>> If people agree I would propose we use Ton's calendar as a starting point. I think Jonathan's proposal is good to try to find one or more persons that would take care of adding and updating events from their countries / regions. 
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>>> So we would need this calendar to become editable for more people. @Ton whats your opinion on this? 
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>>> And: what do others think? Also about the mapping project itself?
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>>> Best regards
>>> Daniel
>>> 
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