[open-sustainability] Hello from London

Tue Dec 11 13:21:39 UTC 2012

Hi Tom,

Echoing Velichka's invite - you and anyone on this are more than welcome at
the next meetup :)

C

On 11 December 2012 12:58, Velichka Dimitrova
<velichka.dimitrova at okfn.org>wrote:

> 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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