[Product] Dear list

Thu Mar 27 21:13:18 UTC 2014

Have set up a event page for our first meetup
http://attending.io/events/product-open-data - still needs a date and
location, suggest a time in the next two weeks.

Looking forward to hearing all of your ideas for the festival Katelyn has
kindly started a pad for everyone to post ideas.
http://okfnpad.org/p/Product_OKFestival

Think we could start by considering;
- A hack which combines the Sourcemap
API<http://free.sourcemap.com/info/api-docs>with our own database to
link their information to ours.
- Activity in which we provide people with a basket of goods to find out as
much as they can about the products
- Find a shop near the festival venue and turn them into our model shop
- Get together with one of the certification bodies to put something
together for them and open new data sets
- There is a trend in Germany at the moment towards the share-economy,
perhaps we can do something around that, so people are not buying things
they can borrow from their friends; http://whyownit.com/

Still would like to hear from anyone that can help with the financial
background of the project; current running costs, cost projections, funding
routes and all the stuff mentioned above.

Lastly; would like to massively thank- as I am sure we all would- Philippe
for putting this whole thing together in the form it is right now with such
a great depth of understanding and consideration for the possibilities the
project holds.

On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Katelyn Rogers <katelyn.rogers at okfn.org>wrote:

> Thanks Thomas,
>
> I second Rufus - this all sounds excellent. You are correct to note that
> the OKFestival session submission deadline is fast approaching. I have
> booted a etherpad (http://okfnpad.org/p/Product_OKFestival) where we can
> start to gather submission ideas. The call for proposals is very
> lightweight so we could easily submit multiple session ideas! The main
> thing to keep in mind is that we want to make sure that sessions are
> participatory!
>
> For more information about OKFestival see here:
> http://2014.okfestival.org/  <http://2014.okfestival.org/>
>
> I'll start adding ideas!
>
> All the best,
> Katelyn
>
>
> On 26 March 2014 19:46, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
>
>> Just saying this all sounds *excellent*, especially more technical plans
>> etc.
>>
>> Rufus
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, 25 March 2014, TLMCN <thomas at enventeco.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Have completed a document outlining the POD project as far as I can
>>> without more input from people familiar with the project. So if you can
>>> help with any of the following or would like to discuss the project more
>>> generally please get in touch.
>>>
>>> - Proposals for the OKFn Festival in Berlin (less than a week left to
>>> submit)
>>> - Give plans more technical character
>>> - Make mockups of information templates
>>>
>>> One of the most advanced projects I came across in the market research
>>> was https://theopenlabel.com/#!/ - 5 million products in their database
>>> with crowdsourced information and they also have quite a range of products
>>> from electronics to food.
>>> http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/10/openlabel-exits-stealth-raises-80k-to-turn-barcodes-into-public-labels/
>>>
>>>
>>> Would really like to hear more from the list about how you see the
>>> project progressing.
>>>
>>> Proposal for the OKFn Festival- we build some sort of competition around
>>> collecting information or create challenges around the data from POD ie how
>>> far someone can track a product down the supply chain.
>>>
>>> Looking forward to hearing from you
>>>
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