[open-government] International Hackhaton - Communications and GTD

[Pedro Markun]

Hi folks,

3 - I've a personal thing against wikis. But let's do it! Will start getting
content on the brazil event today.

4 - Totally. Will also try to get some of this done today.

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Pedro Markun

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 5:53 AM, David Eaves <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>:
>>
>>> 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?
>>
>>
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