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

[Friedrich Lindenberg]

Hi Jonathan,

if you're asking for a technical solution to this, I think we could do
a lot by adding the new apps catalogue extension to CKAN.net and
extending it with the idea of an apps context (i.e. a competition,
hackday, etc.) - These could be created by users and eventually maybe
even have some concept of workflow (such as an entries phase, judging
phase and presentation phase). While this would certainly still be a
bit of development, we could produce something that is extremely
useful and adds a ton of context to the catalogue...

 - Friedrich

On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
> 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 getting pretty outdated: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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