[open-government] International Hackhaton - Communications and GTD

Tue Nov 9 07:53:45 UTC 2010

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>:
>> 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 and give folks admin
> access to create new pages. Alternately anyone can set up as many pads
> as they like on 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?
>