[School-of-data] Announcing the Kick-Off sprint!

Makoto Inoue inouemak at googlemail.com
Fri May 18 08:59:29 UTC 2012 

Hello, everyone.

My name is Makoto. I am a web developer (ruby on rails, javascript) with
past experience as a dba (database administrator) based in London. I am
comfortable with scraping, coding, and data mining with sql, but trying to
brash up my math and statistics skills. I may not be able to attend on the
IRC session for the whole day, but happy to contributing to coding and data
mining related topics.

FYI, I am currently organising an olympic themed hackathon called (
http://mmxiihack.org/). One thing I struggle the most is to get enough
interesting api/dataset for people to mashup due to very proprietary nature
of the event.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmVThz2NA0WRdHdRLUtDSnNGZlg1bDllNFJabUx4VHc#gid=0

Please let me know  If you know any "open" Olympic related data.

I am learning the importance of open data with pain ;-(

Thanks.

Makoto


On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 9:40 AM, João Pedro Cruz
<cruz.joaopedro at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> @Laura, as Rosamaria mentioned, we are already involved in the EconWG.
> This is the group that I am more actively engaged but I'm also subscribing
> the mailing lists of Open Legislation, OKFN-Brasil and a few others.
>
> Regarding the time of the meetings, I will be following the result of the
> preparation meetings and try to follow up on that.
>
> @Rosamaria, good promotion on Yourtopia!!!
>
> Greetings,
> Joao
>
>
> 2012/5/17 Jane Park <janepark at creativecommons.org>
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I'm Jane at Creative Commons -- with the obvious interest in helping
>> to design challenges and educational materials around sharing data and
>> open data - so open tools/licenses used for these purposes, including
>> platforms where you can employ these tools, best practices, case
>> studies, etc.
>>
>> Best,
>> Jane
>>
>> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Rosamaria Bitetti
>> <rosamaria.bitetti at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello Laura - and everybody else!
>> > Like Joao, I have a background in law and economics, my expertise is
>> policy
>> > analysis, especially in ICT sectors. We are both involved in the open
>> > economics working group.
>> > [small advertisement: check out our latest project!
>> italia.yourtopia.net]
>> > I'm here mostly to learn, but if you see any use for my (quite limited)
>> > knowledge, let me know!
>> > Rosamaria
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Laura Newman <laura.newman at okfn.org>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi Joao,
>> >>
>> >> Thank you for getting in touch - and thanks for getting the ball
>> rolling
>> >> on the School of Data mailing list :)
>> >>
>> >> It sounds like you have a very interesting background, and we would
>> love
>> >> to have your involvement in the School of Data in future. Your point
>> about
>> >> time is well taken, and we will certainly consider including e.g. a
>> Saturday
>> >> in any workshops and sprints we plan for the future.
>> >>
>> >> I wonder if you would also be interested in our working group on open
>> >> economics (http://openeconomics.net/)? Shout off-list if so and I
>> will make
>> >> some introductions!
>> >>
>> >> Thanks again for your positive words and we hope to hear from you
>> again in
>> >> future!
>> >>
>> >> Cheers,
>> >> Laura
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 2:22 PM, João Pedro Cruz
>> >> <cruz.joaopedro at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Dear Laura,
>> >>>
>> >>> I am very interested and excited about the School of Data and I would
>> >>> like to take part from it. My background is Intellectual Property and
>> >>> Competition law and economics. I have some theoretical background on
>> >>> collaborative economics and community development.
>> >>>
>> >>> I would love to participate in your events but due to my work I won't
>> be
>> >>> able do to so... I hope that in the future you could schedule some of
>> the
>> >>> meetings to the weekend so that I could take part on it.
>> >>>
>> >>> Anyways, it is great to hear that the School of Data is about to
>> >>> kick-off. I am very excited about this project.
>> >>>
>> >>> Greetings,
>> >>>
>> >>> João Pedro Cruz
>> >>>
>> >>> 2012/5/17 Laura Newman <laura.newman at okfn.org>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Hi all,
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Many thanks for waiting so patiently for news about the School of
>> Data.
>> >>>> Things were quiet initially whilst we waited for funding
>> confirmation, but I
>> >>>> am now delighted to announce that the School of Data will be
>> co-supported by
>> >>>> both Open Society Foundations and the Shuttleworth Foundation. Many
>> thanks
>> >>>> to OSF and Shuttleworth for making this possible!
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Particular thanks also to those of you have volunteered to build
>> >>>> learning challenges, to mentor courses, to offer interesting
>> datasets and
>> >>>> resources, or who have shown an interest in joining the
>> collaboration. This
>> >>>> is your chance to get involved!
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Please do drop an email to this list to share your interests and
>> ideas.
>> >>>> We would be particularly delighted to welcome you to our virtual
>> sprint next
>> >>>> week!
>> >>>>
>> >>>> ## School of Data kick-off sprint
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Next week, we will be holding a School of Data kick-off sprint. This
>> >>>> will be a hands on workshop to share ideas, source materials, and
>> start
>> >>>> building content for the school.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> On the afternoon of Thursday 24th May, we will be holding a
>> designated
>> >>>> online sprint. This will take place on IRC (#schoolofdata on
>> freenode) from
>> >>>> 12-4pm UTC. All are welcome!
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Sign-up on the etherpad:
>> >>>> http://schoolofdata.okfnpad.org/kick-off-sign-up
>> >>>>
>> >>>> On the day, we particularly welcome:
>> >>>> * Suggestions for content and courses
>> >>>> * Recommendations (or donations!) of high quality, openly licensed
>> >>>> materials and resources, including interesting datasets to work with
>> >>>> * Offers to build a specific learning challenge or track
>> >>>> * 'Testers' willing to try out and improve the content available so
>> far
>> >>>>
>> >>>> If you can't join us at the designated time, please do feel to drop
>> into
>> >>>> the IRC room at other times - we will try to ensure someone is in
>> there
>> >>>> whenever possible. Additionally, please do feel free to use this list
>> >>>> (school-of-data at lists.okfn.org) to begin sharing ideas and
>> resources.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> ## Social Evening
>> >>>>
>> >>>> If you happen to be near Berlin, come along for our social evening!
>> >>>> Following the virtual sprint, we will be meeting in Oberholz at 7pm
>> on
>> >>>> Thursday 24th May for a relaxed and informal gathering.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Sign-up here: http://lanyrd.com/2012/opendata/
>> >>>>
>> >>>> We are really excited to see plans for the School of Data moving
>> >>>> forward. With your help, we're sure that this will be a great
>> success. It's
>> >>>> been really encouraging to read all the messages of support that were
>> >>>> submitted via our original form, and we hope that we can now begin
>> putting
>> >>>> some of those excellent ideas into practice!
>> >>>>
>> >>>> If you have any questions, do feel free to contact me directly or via
>> >>>> schoolofdata at okfn.org at any time.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Many thanks,
>> >>>> Laura
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> --
>> >>>> Laura Newman
>> >>>> Community Coordinator
>> >>>> Open Knowledge Foundation
>> >>>> http://okfn.org/
>> >>>> Skype: lauranewmanonskype
>> >>>> Twitter: @Newmanlk
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
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>> >>>> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/school-of-data
>> >>>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> --
>> >>> João Pedro Cruz
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Laura Newman
>> >> Community Coordinator
>> >> Open Knowledge Foundation
>> >> http://okfn.org/
>> >> Skype: lauranewmanonskype
>> >> Twitter: @Newmanlk
>> >>
>> >>
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>> > skype: rosamaria.bitetti
>> >
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