[open-government] Local Open Government events

Fri Nov 26 17:19:04 UTC 2010

We can certainly promote awareness of the calendar through the CityCamp
Exchange: http://e-democracy.org/citycamp

Why not an open government general calendar with a "Local" check box?

I often find that locally interested folks use national events to connect.
Helping locally-oriented folks connect to the larger movement is something a
meta-calendar would assist.

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2010/11/26 Ton Zijlstra <ton.zijlstra at gmail.com>

> 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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