[open-government] International Hackhaton - Communications and GTD

Wed Nov 10 10:03:51 UTC 2010

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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