[OpenSpending] Community update: Call for Data Wranglers, City Spending Data Party and fresh data on OpenSpending

Tue Jul 9 15:16:30 UTC 2013

Hi all,

This is an update with news from members across the OpenSpending community. We
list some of the many ways you can get involved and give a status on how
registrations are coming along for the *City Spending Data Party* on July
19-21. Hint - we have some great cities participating including Lagos,
Minsk and Kathmandu!
On the blog

Patrick Nsukami (Dakar Linux User Group), Pierre Chrzanowski (Open
Knowledge Foundation France) and Tangui Morlier (Regards Citoyens) wrote up
up a detailed account of how they liberated Senegalese procurements
from PDF<http://blog.openspending.org/2013/07/04/exploring-senegal-public-procurements-how-we-turned-pdf-files-into-browsable-data/>
and
published the data on
OpenSpending<http://openspending.org/marches-publics-senegal>.
Félix Ontañón wrote up a post about how he opened up university
budgets<http://blog.openspending.org/2013/06/17/budget-transparency-for-an-open-university/>
in
Spain. Earlier this month we called for a discussion about the continued
growth of the OS project and community based on this
proposal<http://blog.openspending.org/2013/07/02/project-and-community-proposal/>.
We are still eager to hear your thoughts and comments about this.
Fresh data on OpenSpending

Several fresh datasets have been added from *Bosnie-Herzegovina, Japan,
Brazil and Uruguay* in this round of additions to OpenSpending.

川口市平成25年度一般会計予算 <http://openspending.org/kawaguchi_2013_shikai> July 9, 2013

Bosnia and Herzegovina July <http://openspending.org/bosnia-and-herzegovina> 8,
2013

Programa FDI Uruguay<http://blog.openspending.org/2013/07/09/community-update-from-openspending/Programa%20FDI%20Uruguay>
July
8, 2013

Inesc <http://openspending.org/inesc> July 8, 2013

Execução do Orçamento Federal do Brasil –
2000-2013<http://openspending.org/orcamento_brasil_2000_2013>,
8 July 2013
Get Involved

We have got an abundance of activities and development going on. Let us
know how you wish to be involved.

You can help add spending data by heading over to our Progress
Page<http://progress.openspending.org/> where
several datasets are waiting to be cleaned and uploaded to OpenSpending.

We are looking for Data
Wranglers<http://blog.openspending.org/2013/07/08/join-the-openspending-data-wranglers-and-help-open-up-finances-around-the-world/>
who
can help clean and add data to OpenSpending.
Register<https://docs.google.com/a/okfn.org/forms/d/1jL4lGrC_z577r7iQLcJw_PYzDCNzKrPh-QPPl2q4QMM/viewform>
now
and you will be able to join the first training on July 18th.

Do you code? Hal Seki from OKF Japan is heading up a community developer
<https://github.com/openspending/openspending/issues?milestone=24&state=open>
sprint<https://github.com/openspending/openspending/issues?milestone=24&state=open>
 to add a few improvement to OS during the Spending Data Party. Get in
touch if you want to help out!
Upcoming events and activities

***Thursday July 11 19:00 CET / 18:00 GMT / 13:00 EDT*: The weekly *Data
Clinic*, where we offer community support on how to work with budget and
spending data - via Google Hangout and IRC freenode channel #openspending.
Bring your own spending data - or have a look at our Progress
page<http://progress.openspending.org/> to
find one of the spending data sets we’re currently working on. Register for
the Data Clinic
here<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1vi2LNysNsu346-X8H5oIp00OUjDFsiR_pYcQSWrQAiY/viewform>
or
drop in at IRC

*Thursday July 18 19:00 CET / 18:00 GMT / 13:00 EDT:* The Community
GHangout will include updates from across the community and prepare for the
City Spending Data Party

*Friday July 19 to Sunday 21 City Spending Data Party:* Communities across
the OS community will get together online during this weekend to map
spending in their city. So far community members from *Minsk (Belarus),
Lagos (Nigeria), San Francisco, Oakland, Kathmandu (Nepal), Kampala
(Uganda), Kota Tangerang, (Indonesia) and cities across Japan* have
registered for
the event. Find out all the details about the event and how to register in our
announce post<http://blog.openspending.org/2013/06/30/spending-data-party-announce/>
.

You can find the full community update
here<http://blog.openspending.org/2013/07/09/community-update-from-openspending/>
as
well.

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Anders Pedersen

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The Open Knowledge Foundation <http://okfn.org/>

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