[OpenSpending] Do you have OpenSpending plans for Open Data Day on 22 February?

Mon Feb 10 04:16:59 UTC 2014

Hi all,

Thanks to everyone who joined the community hangout on Wednesday. It was
great to see us getting together 15 people from across the community from
Spain, US, Germany, Netherlands and the UK!

I wanted to highlight the upcoming *Open Data Day* on *February 22nd, *which
will feature open data events in cities across the world. You can read more
about how you can run an OpenSpending activity below or on our Open Data
event page:
http://community.openspending.org/events/open-data-day-2014/

Are you interested in the recent budget passed in your city council or
curious about the expenditures of your local school board? Then be sure to
get involved and make use of the OpenSpending platform and community at
Open Data Day.

Help open up your city's finances by publishing them on OpenSpending and
producing elegant visualizations that show where money goes. OpenSpending
makes it super-easy to turn an Excel (or even PDF) file of local city
finances into something browsable and searchable. It also enables you make
clear and beautiful visualisations of your local city's finances in seconds
making them understandable to everyone.

For Open Data Day you can just follow these 3 simple steps:
1. Find the data - locate your local city or municipal data
2. Prepare the data - turn it into a single clean spreadsheet in Excel,
Libreoffice or Google Docs (and then export as CSV - just "save as")
3. Upload to OpenSpending and visualize If you need more information we've
got the full step-by-step
guide<http://community.openspending.org/help/guide/>for you even in
six different languages.

*Join a Hangout to learn more about Open Data Day and OpenSpending!*
On February 12th @12:00 EST / 18:00 CET at an Open Data Day Google
Hangout<https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cdh7h5req1g4ucqrrcmdirmodbk>
you
will have the chance to learn more about Open Data Day plans across cities
and get your questions answered.

We will also host an *OpenSpending* *Community Hangout on February 19th*,
where you can ask questions about OpenSpending and Open Data Day. Sign
up<https://docs.google.com/a/okfn.org/document/d/1_59aF9SPubHnkLAnGN2cF2Be5ANGqxCJOak4MeAsKJs/edit#heading=h.h0wmkx13ibk>for
the Community Hangout now and add topics for the agenda!

Best,
Anders

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