[OpenSpending] City Spending Party - 4 days to go!

Tue Jul 16 11:50:28 UTC 2013

Hi all

Thanks Anders for information, we are very excited to do this...... we are
waiting for moment.

Last time Friedrich was worked on budget data that you provided link above
.... the Open Nepal Initiative...

we are expecting a support from you guys, cause this is our first
initiation ... i have just pushed data on http://progress.openspending.org/

Regards
Prakash Neupane
Ambassador
Open Knowledge Foundation Nepal.

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Anders Pedersen
<anders.pedersen at okfn.org>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We are just four days away from the Spending Data Party - July 19th to
> 21st - where the OpenSpending community gets togethers to open up spending
> and budget data of cities<http://blog.openspending.org/2013/06/30/spending-data-party-announce/> across
> the world. As of writing cities are still getting on board for the party.
> As recently as today groups in Chennai (India) and Dublin (Ireland) signed
> up!
>
> Below you will find more information about the spending party as we are
> getting closer.
>
> *###Cities joining*
> There will be activities in Kathmandu (Nepal), Kampala (Uganda), Minsk
> (Belarus), Lagos (Nigeria), Kota Tangerang (Indonesia), Chennai (India),
> San francisco (USA), Oakland, (USA), Rotterdam (Netherlands), Dublin,
> (Ireland), Tsukuba and several other cities (Japan).
>
> *###What will groups be doing at the Spending Data Party?*
> Here are a few examples of what various groups will be up to during the
> spending party:
>
> *Wrangle and visualise budget data:* In Kathmandu, Prakash and the rest
> of OKF Nepal have invited for the party with this announcement<http://np.okfn.org/2013/07/12/city-spending-data-party-kathmandu-2013/>.
> They will be working on the city budget of Kathmandu as well as the newly
> released budget from the government of Nepal. OKF Nepal created just last
> month this budget visualisation<http://nepal.mapthemoney.org/#/~/total-budget> and
> so we are looking forward to see what will happen this time!
>
> *Hack on OpenSpending code:* OKF Japan has been taking the lead on
> improving the code of the OS Satellite Template<https://github.com/openspending/satellite-template/issues?state=open> and
> have already created several issues on Github. They are however eager to
> get help from you during the spending party. Let us know if you would like
> to help!
> OKF Japan will also continue their work to help a number of cities to set
> up Where Does My Money Go? sites.
>
> *What can you do?*
> Grab some budget or spending data and begin working on it! Let the
> community know what you are working on by adding it to
> progress.openspending.org and let *the mailing list know* if you need
> help!
>
> Can you help translate OpenSpending materials or write guides to help
> other users? We have created this community board<https://trello.com/board/openspending-community/51df39387ccbe10b27000f8c> where
> you can see what people in the community is working on in order to improve
> OpenSpending. For example we would like to write a Community Starter Kit<https://docs.google.com/a/okfn.org/document/d/1Cqpb_aURYxyh1EcX4PoYH5uIJ5yhAxvrUDWruV_I1mE/edit#> to
> help local initiatives to get started with OpenSpending. (When you have
> created a (free) Trello account, you can *comment* on current issues, *
> create* new issues you think we should work on and *claim an issue* that
> you wish to work on.)
>
> *###Need help getting started?*
> Do you need help to get started working on your data? We will host a
> OpenSpending Data Clinic via GHangout on *Thursday July 18th* at 19CET /
> 18 BST / 13 EDT - your time zone<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=OS+Data+Clinic&iso=20130718T13&p1=263&ah=1>.
> You can sign up here<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1vi2LNysNsu346-X8H5oIp00OUjDFsiR_pYcQSWrQAiY/viewform>
> .
>
> Interested learning more about how you can help *hack on the OpenSpending
> code? *Join Hal Seki and several other OS developers from OKF Japan at a
> pre-spending party Developer Hangout on *Thursday July 18th* at 11PM
> Tokyo time / 4PM CET / 3PM BST / 10AM EDT - your time zone here<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Spending+Party+-+developer+sprint+call&iso=20130718T10&p1=263&ah=1>.
> Sign up here<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1g-PjPqFFWui7EgUeH8CaAQbM589lAQidFCMW8ezAxDM/viewform>
> .
>
> During the Spending Party you can reach us via #IRC freenode channel:
> #openspending or via twitter @openspending or #openspending
>
> Finally we will set up a GHangout during the Spending Party on Saturday
> July 20th for everyone participating in the spending party. Thanks to
> Hiroichi at OKF Japan for assisting arranging this!
>
> Looking forward to this. Get in touch if you have questions or need help
> getting set up!
>
> Anders
>
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