[open-government] Local Open Government events

Fri Nov 26 14:21:02 UTC 2010

Hi Daniel, all,

I like the way you used 'my' Google Calendar with open data events. I would
really like to open up the calendar up to others for adding events as well.
The way I currently maintain it is, that if I come across an event in the
line of my news editing work for epsiplatform.eu I add it to the calendar as
well. But it would be great if others are on the lookout for events as well.
Especially as there are many more events being planned these days than e.g.
18 months ago.
For me personally it would have the added bonus that the calendar for me
then is also a way to find out about more events myself, so I know what
opportunities there are for writing news items for the epsiplaform.eu.

I wouldn't mind if the calendar actually became more cluttered with lots of
local events for instance, as it is an accurate reflection of what is going
on. By adding tags to the events it would eventually become possible to
subscribe to subsets of the calendar, wouldn't it?

So how do I go about opening up the event calendar for other editors. I
don't think I can completely open up a Google calendar, can I? So probably I
would need to add people by inviting them, and giving them editing rights?

Who would be willing to help do that?

best,
Ton
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On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 9:26 PM, Daniel Dietrich
<daniel.dietrich at okfn.org>wrote:

> 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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> > >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
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