Hi all,
Greetings from snowy Cambridge! Here is the latest bulletin of news and events at the Open Knowledge Foundation.
Events
* Open Economics Working Group, City DataParty, Wednesday 8th February. Full details here
* The second #OpenDataCBG meet-up will take place in the Panton Arms in Cambridge on 27th February. Visit the meet-up page for more information!
Notices
* We have been nominated to take part in the 'Digital Communities' category of the
Prix Ars Electronica. The deadline is March 2nd. Primavera is interested in applying on behalf of the OKFN, and is seeking collaborators. Get in touch if you'd like to be involved!
* Applications for the
Panton Fellowships are open until February 24th. Apply now!
* The Open Development Working Group has been reborn. The group will be working on an ambitious project to create a European Aid Data Network. See below for more details, or sign-up to the
mailing list.
*
Interested in seeing OpenSpending in your own language? Contact
lucy.chambers [at] okfn.org and sign up for an account on
www.transifex.net. Any translations
completed by 10th Feb will be featured in the next release!
Further Updates:
OKFest
Details of OKFest 2012 will be announced tomorrow - watch this space!
#OpenDataLDN
The meet-up was a huge success last week, with
60+ participants and lots of new ideas
and interesting projects shared. You can follow the blog post and twitter trail for the
event here.
Open Development working group
A
proposal was submitted last year to create a European Aid Data Network
to the EuropeAid budget line of the European Commission, led by AidInfo
in the UK, with Partos (NL), FORS (CZ), ACEP (PT), IGO (PL) and the Open
Knowledge Foundation (UK). The partners will hear in March if they have
been invited to make a full application for funding, but in the
meantime have agreed to start work on some networking actions in any
case. This includes:
- Agreeing on the open-development OKFN list as the main co-ordinating point;
- Getting web presence set up for the open-development list to link to upcoming events
- Carrying
out a short mapping survey of open-development list members and others
to identify existing skills and strengths, and needs, around
open-development information, events and resources.
Work
of the network has two foci: a) coordination and networking within the
open aid data community and b) outreach to NGOs to raise awareness and
offer training on open aid data
The group is also looking to identify events coming up in Europe this year to link open development conversations too. Thinking about possible seminars to explore what vision of open development is.
Open Economics Working Group
* Vote on the date for the Energy and Climate Hackday here
Public Domain Works
* The Public Domain Day in Paris was a great success. Planning on organizing a second round OpenGLAM event.
* Open Metadata Handbook: preliminary draft is complete, soliciting relevant people to contribute.
* Public Domain Calculators: new calculators coming + get the publicdomainworks.net website up and running with Etienne
Open Linguistics
Open Biblio
* Sprint / meet-up to be held next month in Edinburgh, Hackathon in June in London or nearby
* Discussion on encouraging community, using BibKN as way of directing people to the different tools and datasets
* Lots of work on BibServer and BibSoup by Etienne, Mark M and PMR, BibSoup to be launched next week
* Presenting to a number of Research Councils soon
*
Interacts with Open Science - other projects should get in touch if
they think the technology to get and parse data might be useful (and how
could it not?)
Open Data Manual
* Text of version 1.0 is ready to freeze. After this there will be a big translation push, so linguists get ready!
School of Data
* Coming soon, keep your eyes on the OKFN blog for more details.
Thanks guys, keep your news and updates coming! The next bulletin will come round on February 20th.
Kind regards,
Laura
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Laura Newman
Community Coordinator
Open Knowledge Foundation
http://okfn.org/
Skype: lauranewmanonskype
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