[open-government] Open data competitions - archive + documentation?

Sun Jun 12 13:18:02 UTC 2011

Just saw this new competition in Vienna - which looks excellent!

http://www.epsiplatform.eu/news/news/first_vienna_open_data_challenge_announced

This made me think we probably need a better way to capture and
display information about open data competitions. Our spreadsheet is
getting pretty outdated:

http://opengovernmentdata.org/data/competitions/

I think this is useful information to have - both from a policy
perspective and as an archive for anyone interested in doing a
competition themselves.

Friedrich: do you think this is the kind of thing that could be added
to CKAN? Or can you think of another elegant way to do this?

Also I think we should add a section to OpenDataManual.org with a "how
to" section on organising competition, events and other activities. At
the moment we give examples, but a step-by-step guide (or several)
would probably be useful. I'd be willing to give some notes/text based
on what we did for the Open Data Challenge. What do people think?

Katalin: you also said you'd be willing to provide input based on your
experiences organising the Amsterdam apps competition?

Tim: any thoughts on this?

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