Posted by aufumy on September 16, 2009 at 6:59pm
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2009-09-16 17:00 - 22:00 America/Vancouver Event type:
User group meeting
Work with the City of Vancouver to make your kind of data available to you, in the format that is most useful.
So that you can create interesting mashups and share them with the community.
First Vancouver Open Data Hackathon at city archives starting 5pm
https://www.socialtext.net/vandata/index.cgi?open_data_hackathon_septemb...
Also view the beta version of data that has started to become available:
http://data.vancouver.ca/
Thanks to LukeC and City of Vancouver Archives to help organize this.
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Aargh!
Really? The busiest week in September, and it's tonight? Ah well, hope to see lots of posts about the stuff that comes out of this.
Unfortunately I was out of
Unfortunately I was out of town, so I couldn't make it myself.
Luke Closs has already put together a site http://vantrash.ca/ starting with previous hackathons that he organized at vanhackspace.
There was a good initial
There was a good initial turnout but a lot of people had double bookings so a third to half of the people disappeared off to other events fairly quickly. I'm not sure how much project work got done overall but there was a lot of information sharing. And the Vancouver Archive folks were great.
Jim Pick snapped a picture: http://twitpic.com/hzxpo
Followup? +Open311Camp, TOPP
has anyone written this up, or reported on it in detail?
FYI--
http://open311.org/2009/09/announcing-open311-devcamp/
To attend or see the current list of attendees including other cities: http://open311.eventbrite.com/ (So far the 311 teams from NYC, D.C., Toronto, Columbus, and other cities are attending)
On October 24th, The Open Planning Project will host Open311 DevCamp at their NYC office. Please register to attend either in person or remotely via Eventbrite (it’s free). This is a DevCamp style un-conference to coordinate a standard specification for 311 services. Washington D.C’s 311 API will be a major case-study for developing a more universal 311 API. In general, this DevCamp will be an opportunity to discuss and develop what’s needed to make 311 services more accessible and for cities to share knowledge for mutual benefit. The event is intended for developers, project managers, and policy makers involved with 311 services. We encourage those involved with 311 services from all cities to take part. If you cannot attend in person, please sign up as a remote attendee and we’ll provide you with information about how to connect to the DevCamp remotely.
Please register at http://open311.eventbrite.com
The wiki page for the event is http://wiki.open311.org/Open311DevCamp
Ultimately this conversation will lead to a standard specification for 311 services, but the very first goal is to create an environment for knowledge-sharing and best practices.
On the same day there will another event in NYC that focuses on coordinating open technology for mobile devices and we plan to coordinate with that event as well: http://openmobilecamp.eventbrite.com/
Dan Knauss
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/danknauss
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