[OpenSpending] Community update and next Call Wednesday 29 May - 19:00 CET

Anders Pedersen anders.pedersen at okfn.org
Mon May 27 16:32:10 UTC 2013


All,

We'll be organising our next *Community Call Wednesday 29 May at 19:00 CET
/ 18:00 BST / 13 EDT* via Google Hangout.

Sign up for the call in this
GoogleDoc<https://docs.google.com/a/okfn.org/document/d/1vx9oSJieuqfQ2xdBTyFSTmDRsPRenTrJLKJDo_ZP8z4/edit#heading=h.b8hfcwdlof61>
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Topic: Getting started with OpenSpending

We'll show how you can get started and will be answering questions such as:

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   I want to load my city budget: Sure, go
ahead<http://openspending.org/datasets/new>!

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   Can I help load a dataset? Absolutely - check our progress
page<http://progress.openspending.org/>
   -

   Where do I find spending data: Ask the open data
community<http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/51674/open-data>at
Stack Exchange or the OpenSpending
   mailing list <http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/openspending>
   -

   I want to help code: Great, have a look at our issues on
Github<https://github.com/openspending/openspending/>



*#News from around the community*
In Italy the investigative journalists at IRPI <http://irpi.eu/> are
planning to look more into Italian spending data. Are you interested in
helping us opening up Italian spending, then get in touch via the list or
join the community call where IRPI will be joining.

OKFN Local Group France recently helped adding procurements from
Senegal<http://openspending.org/marches-publics-senegal/entries> on
to OpenSpending. Check their blogpost [in
French]<http://fr.okfn.org/2013/05/27/open-data-senegal-retour-sur-le-tandem-dakar-paris/>.
The group also organised an event in
Paris<http://fr.okfn.org/2013/05/04/openspending-rejoignez-nous-le-22-mai-pour-comprendre-les-aides-a-la-presse/>on
May 23 mapping the state
of the French media using
OpenSpending<http://openspending.org/aidespresse3/views/aides-directes-a-la-presse-en-france-en-2012>
.

A big congrats to Adam, Spike and the rest of the team the Open Budget
Oakland as Oakland City Council passed a bill to open up the budget process
of the city<http://openoakland.org/city-council-adopts-a-more-open-budget-for-oakland/>.
Also congrats to those of you from the community who helped the project
push through.

Would you like to organise a local event to open up spending in your city
or country, let us know. We'd be happy to help out with web guides and
other support!

*#Procurements*
This month OpenSpending helped organise a Hack Day in
Brussels<http://openspending.org/blog/2013/04/09/procurement-hack-day.html>to
open the European procurement register. Getting access to procurement
data can be a really important source for tracing where the money goes,
especially in countries where transactional spending data is stil
unavailable. It is therefore relevant to ask if OpenSpending should begin
to enable procurements and contracts to be added more easily than today.
Read more in the recap from the Hack
Day<http://openspending.org/blog/2013/05/15/Procurement-Hac-Recap.html>
and let
us know you think?

All for now.

Best,
Anders

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Anders Pedersen

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