[open-government] open-government Digest, Vol 9, Issue 26

Wed Nov 10 12:55:03 UTC 2010

Hi David, 

For b), there's some prior experience from the last RHOK and CrisisCamps that might be useful.  We ran early camps where we left all the sites to coordinate projects themselves, but found that having an operations centre (a small team of people dotted round the world who spent the weekend watching all the data feeds, entering useful stuff (like project descriptions for each camp) from them into a wiki and connecting up people working on related topics) worked better.   

That might not be appropriate for the first OpenData Hackday (most people will be busy just getting used to the hackathon format), but might be a good thing to plan in for the next one.  If needed, my personal notes on this are at http://blog.overcognition.com/?p=113 - the RHOK organising team @randomhacks might be able to provide some hints and tips as well.

Sj.

Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 02:03:51 -0800
From: David Eaves <david at eaves.ca>
Subject: Re: [open-government] International Hackhaton -
    Communications and GTD
To: "Daniela B. Silva" <daniela at esfera.mobi>
Cc: open-government at lists.okfn.org
Message-ID: <4CDA6E07.6090608 at eaves.ca>
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Daniela - this is awesome news! So glad you can make it!

Lots to catch up on. I think the key things we'll want to figure out is 
a) encouraging cities where people are interested but there is still 
need for a critical mass. b) helping cities connect to do their demos.

cheers,
dave

On 10-11-09 2:20 PM, Daniela B. Silva wrote:
> Hi, David and all!
>
> I just confirmed I will be at the OGD Camp in London (I'll get there 
> on the 19th, as I am at the Transparency Camp in Warsaw the day before 
> ? will be happy to speak of our Hackathon there too).
>
> Count on me to participate on the session. It will be great to meet 
> some of you there :)
>
> Daniela
>
> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 5:53 AM, David Eaves <david at eaves.ca 
> <mailto:david at eaves.ca>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Pedro, Jonathan and everyone,
>
>     A couple of thoughts:
>
>     1. Definitely happy to facilitate a session of International Open
>     Data Hackathons at Open Government Data Camp in London
>
>     2. Jonathan - if setting up an IRC channel is helpful (and it
>     might be on the day for sure) let's go ahead and do it. Let me
>     know if/when it is up and I'll add the info to the wiki and website
>
>     3. Rather than use etherpad for each "country/'instance of event'"
>     I'd like to recommend we use the wiki. It's a little more robust
>     than the etherpad
>
>     4. Pedro: If you have documents on how to (and how not to) run a
>     hackathon, any chance you can post them to the wiki? I even set a
>     page aside for just this type of material here:
>     http://www.opendataday.org/wiki/Running_a_Hackathon
>
>     Things in Vancouver have really taken shape so I'm quite excited.
>     Think we are more or less ready to go.
>
>     cheers,
>     dave
>
>
>     On 10-11-08 7:40 AM, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>
>         Hi Pedro,
>
>         Great to hear that you are planning things in Brazil!
>
>         FYI I just created a pad for a planning session on the
>         hackathon at
>         the London camp (provisionally facilitated by David Eaves if he's
>         happy to do this!):
>
>         http://opengovernmentdata.okfnpad.org/hackdays
>
>         Answers to a few things inline below...
>
>         2010/11/4 Pedro Markun<pedro at esfera.mobi
>         <mailto:pedro at esfera.mobi>>:
>
>             Set up an #odhd irc channel on Freenode.
>
>         If useful we can use OKF IRC channel, which is currently used
>         for all
>         kinds of open data stuff. Details at:
>
>         http://okfn.org/contact/
>
>         We could also set up a dedicated #opendata channel. ;-)
>
>             One etherpad per country/'instance of event' for the
>             actual document
>
>         If useful I can set up opendataday.okfnpad.org
>         <http://opendataday.okfnpad.org> and give folks admin
>         access to create new pages. Alternately anyone can set up as
>         many pads
>         as they like on okfnpad.org <http://okfnpad.org> already.
>
>             coverage of the event
>             Set up one wiki space for getting this actual info out?
>             okfn has a wiki
>             space we can use
>
>         http://www.opendataday.org/wiki/City_Events
>
>             We also have an small document on 'how to (not) run a
>             transparency hackday'
>             wich is loosely based (as in 'quite different')
>             on
>             http://sunlightlabs.com/blog/2010/how-manage-large-volunteer-hackathons/
>             that
>             we will share in pt-br but could translate if there is
>             interest...
>             I want to have a really straightforwad guide on how to get
>             and event running
>             locally and what you need to do in order to be linked to
>             the global
>             movement.
>
>         Very interesting! Definitely would love to see more documentation
>         along these lines! Anyone know about any other relevant material?
>
>
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