[OpenSpending] USA Spending (or a slice) into OpenSpending

Sat Sep 15 16:38:51 UTC 2012

Hi Lucy, Thanks for the note. I've followed your emails and work over the
last couple of years. I think you and the group have been doing a great
job. I particularly want to applaud all the efforts towards consolidating
and using open source info graphic and DM tools. Your links and work have
spun off several interesting projects for me. I'd be delighted to work with
Kat on setting up a US OKFN chapter. As I indicated in my emails when I
first contacted y'all during the early days of OKFN, it is KM, support of
sigs (which your choice of taxonomy calls 'working groups'), and the
metadata structure which concern me the most. I will probably focus on
those items with the US sig. I'll also communicate with Kaitlin to see what
support I might be able to provide her efforts. My plate is always full, so
no concerns as to how long all this takes. Best of luck and keep up the
great work. Regards, Steve
PS I used the links to try and join each of the US community groups. I
found the process cumbersome and somewhat confusing.

On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 7:02 AM, Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org>wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
> Many thanks for your email. It would be great to look at the
> bankruptcy data in more detail. Kaitlin Lee, from the Sunlight
> Foundation, is part of this list and the Working Group on Open
> Spending Data. We were chatting just last week that she is working on
> gathering spending data from across the US:
> http://thedatahub.org/en/group/us-state-spending-and-revenue-data - so
> she'd definitely be a good person to get in contact with if you are
> interested in the US data.
>
> As regards a US OKFN site, I'm looping in my colleague, Kat, who looks
> after the local chapters. She's going to be frightfully busy this week
> as she's running OKFestival, but perhaps, when the steam has died down
> from that, we could set up a call to talk this through further?
>
> If you're looking for more info on how these groups are started and
> set up. Kat's put up a page here: http://okfn.org/chapters/ - they are
> springing up all over the place (see:
> http://www.meetup.com/OpenKnowledgeFoundation/ - where it does appear
> that some open data meetups are being held in the US), perhaps we
> could connect the dots.
>
> Do let us know if you'd like to talk more,
>
> Lucy
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 9:45 PM, George Adcock <gsaintheusa at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi Rufus, I've always been interested in the US side of the OKFN
> equation.
> > We went over this back in 2008 when I first signed up with the OKFN and
> > wanted to push a more comprehensive KM plan, but things change.
> > How are SIGs (Special Interest Group) organized. I can't search them or
> set
> > them on the OKFN site. I will be happy to work with, or create and
> maintain,
> > a US OKFN sig. I'd also be happy to help you with the bankruptcy data if
> > you'd like, but I never got a response when I asked what you hoped to
> > accomplish.
> > Regards, Steve Adcock
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Kaitlin,
> >>
> >> To follow our chat today in person :-)
> >>
> >> It would be great to get some portion of USA spending data into
> >> OpenSpending. Starting point would be USASpending.gov data, see:
> >>
> >> http://usaspending.gov/data
> >> http://datahub.io/dataset/usa-spending
> >>
> >> You guys at Sunlight already extract the data as part of the
> >> InfluenceExplorer. Your suggestion was first to have a dig in the Data
> >> Dictionary:
> >>
> >>
> >> <
> http://usaspending.gov/sites/all/themes/usaspendingv2/Archives_Data_Feeds_Data_Dictionary.pdf
> >
> >>
> >> And then decide what are the key fields. We can then get a dump,
> >> extract a sample and try loading it.
> >>
> >> Rufus
> >>
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