[open-government] Local Open Government events

Thu Nov 25 16:17:49 UTC 2010

Julian, Jonathan,

Perhaps the Elmcity Project being run on Azure by Jon Udell will best assist
with our ambition?

see: http://elmcity.cloudapp.net/  -- What's possible with this tool?

Best,
Morgen

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>wrote:

> Very glad you raised this Julian. Yes we would very much like it if
> the Open Government Data WG could curate a calendar (or series of
> calendars) for open government data related events. We're not sure
> whether it would be better to have:
>
>  (i) a number of different calendars which we then federate
>  (ii) a single calendar with lots of events in different locations
>
> Does anyone have any ideas on this? Anyone interested in helping to
> curate? Ideally we'd like to have a designated person in each country
> to keep an eye on relevant events. Particularly within Europe...
>
> All input greatly appreciated! ;-)
>
> All the best,
>
> Jonathan
>
> 2010/11/25 Julian Tait <julian at futureeverything.org>:
> > Hi,
> > Would it be any use to have an OKFN directory of local, regular Open
> > Government type events. I am one of the people who run the monthly Open
> Data
> > Manchester meet
> > ups http://madlab.org.uk/content/open-data-manchester-4/ which happen on
> the
> > last Tuesday of the month and think that it would be useful to know what
> > else is going on, especially with regard to sharing knowledge,
> participating
> > in and organising other events.
> > Cheers
> > Julian Tait
> > Open Data Cities
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