[open-government] Local Open Government events

Thu Nov 25 20:26:37 UTC 2010

Hi Jonathan and others,

I think we ll agree that the ogd community needs to share information about events. With the ogd mapping* project we discussed some of this earlier here on the list. For the idea of the ogd mapping project I created this wikipage.

http://wiki.okfn.org/wg/government/mapping 

Back to the calendar:

As a start I just used Ton's great google calendar of ogd events and put it online here

http://opengovernmentdata.org/calendar/

this is - of course - far a way from a good solution. 

I would recommend to keep things simple. So I opt to start with a single calendar (we can still separate into different calendars later) and to use a simple technology that a lot of people are familiar with, such as google calendar.

If people agree I would propose we use Ton's calendar as a starting point. I think Jonathan's proposal is good to try to find one or more persons that would take care of adding and updating events from their countries / regions. 

So we would need this calendar to become editable for more people. @Ton whats your opinion on this? 

And: what do others think? Also about the mapping project itself?

Best regards
Daniel

On 25.11.2010, at 17:17, Morgen Peers wrote:

> 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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