Working Groups/euopendata/2

= Second EU Open Data Call =
 * Original notes: http://etherpad.com/m2U136pNR9 (migrated here)
 * When: 2010-01-12 at 1800 GMT
 * Where: Skype and #okfn channel on irc.oftc.net (connect via browser at: http://ur1.ca/4fh)

Organizing the calls

 * Next call: 9th Feb 4pm GMT, 5pm CET 6 (in Finland), *strict limit to one hour*
 * OKF IRC channel: #okfn on irc.oftc.net
 * One click web browser connect at: http://ur1.ca/4fh
 * For reference, details at: http://okfn.org/contact
 * Antti will chair the next conf-call, then we will rotate the chair again: Antti: http://wiki.okfn.org/wg/guide#WorkingGroupCoordinator

Participants this time

 * Michael
 * James Burke
 * Antti Poikola (Finland)
 * Sören (Germany)
 * Jonathan Gray (UK)
 * Daniel Dietrich (Berlin, Germany)

See the introductions of the participants

Agenda

 * Go over last meeting's action items
 * General news/updates
 * New members (Who else should we invite to these calls?)
 * Apps for Democracy Europe contest
 * National contests this year (at least Finland and Germany) and European wide finals this autumn or next spring.
 * Open data registries + CKAN
 * Evaluating the possibility to join CKAN and  opengov.x efforts -> Vision: a one-click service to establish a nice looking community oriented data catalog that is compatible with other catalogs in different cities or countries.
 * Legal and policy toolkits? (Dossier of open gov data initiatives across Europe, EU PSI directive implementation, relevant national laws, etc.)
 * Does anyone want to volunteer to chair these meetings?
 * Action items

APPS FOR DEMOCRACY CONTEST

 * It's good to hanational contests and EU finals, but also e specific EU-hacking contest/day
 * maybe not European wide contest, but at least connect the national events informally
 * world ICT-forum (Kundra will be there), James is looking for funding to sen teens there to hacking
 * Who else is going to have similar contests?
 * one in Denmark organized by the government, big price

IDEA: Collect the ongoing initiatives in one place

 * http://opengovernmentdata.org/ (International focus, reference based, links etc.) (not yet public!)
 * compared to http://ourdata.eu (European, good for stories)?
 * some wiki based
 * re: datasets - collecting things on ckan.net...

MISC:

 * Data driven journalism
 * in UK the cabinet office and OPSI (John Sheridan) are really commited to opening up the data.. the recent development int is just tip of the iceberg
 * Legal and policy toolkits? (Dossier of open gov data initiatives across Europe, EU PSI directive implementation, relevant national laws, etc.)

Open data registries + CKAN

 * Setting up the discussion on what about opengov.x could connect with what in CKAN
 * Have a half day virtual designing workshop
 * opengov.x - antti wants something for developer communities.
 * official data catalogs don't show which data sets are not open
 * community owned, community driven data catalogs
 * looking to retheme front end of CKAN
 * write specifications for new front end (Canada, DE, FI)

ACTION ITEMS:

 * Jonathan Gray: to invite representative from Norway
 * James, Antti, Daniel:
 * look at ckan.net and review
 * think about new features we want
 * other similar sites?
 * theme?
 * All: would be great to comment on + fill in: http://opengovernmentdata.org/form/
 * Everyone hold the days 23-25 April open in your calendars for the OKN conference
 * One-to-one discussions between content-organizers
 * James will look on how we could all use http://ourdata.eu/ as common place to post things about national events.
 * James - Ton how our network can add stuff to ourdata.eu
 * Everyone should contact the national contact person from ePSIplatform: http://epsiplatform.eu/contacts/european_public_sector_information_psi_platform_contacts/national_representative_organisations_european_psi_platform