[open-sustainability] Hello from London

Velichka Dimitrova velichka.dimitrova at okfn.org
Tue Dec 11 12:58:27 UTC 2012


Welcome Tom!

As there are quite a few of us based in London, maybe we should have a
meetup - or even better since there are already Cleanweb Meetups in London
we should just meet at one of those -
http://www.meetup.com/Cleanweb-London.

I won't be there for the Christmas Drinkup, but am aiming to attend the
talks on January 21. James does an awesome job of running such events.


Velichka



On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Pierre KASHINDI
<kashindipierre at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear,
> That's great, and i think i will have a time to read more about OKFN
> to see how can i get involved.
>
> 2012/12/11, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>:
> > Welcome Tom. :-)
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Tom Chance
> > <Tom.Chance at london.gov.uk>wrote:
> >
> >> **
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I'd like to quickly introduce myself, and some open sustainability data.
> >>
> >> I work at the Greater London Authority supporting the two Green Party
> >> Members of the London Assembly (a body of elected politicians who
> >> scrutinise the Mayor of London and have certain powers over his budget
> >> and
> >> strategy). I've also been involved on and off with the open data
> movement
> >> for many years in a personal capacity, including speaking at some of
> >> Rufus
> >> Pollock's ever-fun London Copyfighters' Drunken Brunch events back in
> >> 2005
> >> (those were the days!)
> >>
> >> The GLA launched one of the very first open data projects in the UK,
> >> where
> >> you can find quite a bit of enviromental data:
> >> http://data.london.gov.uk/taxonomy/categories/environment
> >>
> >> This includes the London Energy and Greenhouse Gas Inventory, which
> >> sounds
> >> similar to the sort of data Hans Rosling wants to see published
> >> worldwide:
> >> http://data.london.gov.uk/datastore/package/leggi-2008-database
> >>
> >> Thanks to pressure from one of the Members I work with, the GLA has also
> >> started to release detailed modelling data underpinning its strategies,
> >> for
> >> example:
> >>
> >>
> http://data.london.gov.uk/datastore/package/climate-change-mitigation-and-energy-strategy-model-data
> >>
> >>
> >> In my personal life I have also pursued various experiments with
> >> sustainable lifestyles data in OpenStreetMap, for example:
> >> http://tom.acrewoods.net/2011/04/11/announcing-openecomaps-to-geeks/
> >> (site
> >> currently not functioning!)
> >> http://tom.acrewoods.net/2012/10/04/mapping-for-pedestrians/
> >> http://tom.acrewoods.net/2012/10/26/londons-natural-geography/
> >>
> http://tom.acrewoods.net/2012/11/02/analysing-southwarks-natural-geography/
> >>
> >>
> >> I cannot give a lot of time in my day job to this group, but I look
> >> forward to seeing what it can achieve.
> >>
> >>
> >> Tom Chance
> >> Team Coordinator
> >> LONDONASSEMBLY Green Group
> >>
> >> City Hall, The Queen's Walk, London SE1 2AA
> >> Tel: 020 7983 4963
> >>
> >> **
> >>
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