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

[Marco Voormolen]

I was chatting on my moms old laptop and it overheated... brb
On 9 Jul 2013 17:33, "Anders Pedersen" <anders.pedersen at okfn.org> wrote:

> 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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