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

[Jonathan Gray]

I sort of hoped you'd say this. ;-)

I *really* like this idea. If we were to try and take it forward what
would be the best thing to do? I guess assemble a team who'd be
willing to do the gathering/maintenance bit - and then put together a
rough spec on notebook.okfn.org - and send to CKAN discuss?

J.

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Friedrich Lindenberg
<friedrich.lindenberg at okfn.org> wrote:
> 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 getting pretty outdated: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?
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Gray
>>
>> Community Coordinator
>> The Open Knowledge Foundation
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>>
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>>
>



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