Local Meeting Jan 9 2012

Second Skype meeting of the OKFN:Local Chapter + Group organisers.

Attendants

 * Kat Braybrooke, OKFN Core
 * Everton Zanella Alvarenga, Brazil
 * Pieter Colpaert, Belgium
 * Lieven Janssen, Belgium
 * Michaela Rybickova, Czech Republic
 * Petri Kola, Finland
 * napo aka Maurizio Napolitano, Italy
 * Daniel Dietrich, Germany
 * Hauke Gierow, Germany
 * Charalampos Bratsas, Greece
 * Laura Newman, OKFN Core
 * Sridhar Gutam, India

Apologies:


 * Stefano Costa, Italy
 * Laura James, OKFN Core
 * Pieter Colpaert, Belgium

Sridhar Gutam, India

 * OKFN India Chapter (Proposal)

Daniel, OKFN Chapter: Germany

 * Chapter in transition mode right now, from 2011 focussing on outreach, policy and events to focussing more on project development in 2012. We have been approached to do several projects on open data with big IT companies. We want to develope self-sustained  projects with own budget but are sceptical to partner up with the big  companies. So we might stick growing slow and develop projects and  communiteies step by step rather than selling our soul to the *evel  side*. OKF DE is satarting to do regular local meetups every second Tuesday of the month]

Kat, OKFN Global

 * brief updates re legal difference between OKFN groups versus chapters; welcome to new groups getting started in Greece, Australia, Netherlands, India!

Napo, OKFN Local: Italy
we we are involved in organization of the contest appsforitaly, this week  we have another update with the other people involved and later i can  inform more about some questions like celebration day,  evaluation  committee ... and other ... for now we have 40.000 euro. Most of the money comes from the precedent italian government, and, in this transiction    period from Berlusconi to Monti, we are waiting for  new information. http://www.opendatajournalism.it. also, the new italian goverment is searching for 6 experts in open government,  smart cities and open data. The people must be under40 and with a phd in Italy we started with a data journalism mailing list for italian people http://groups.google.com/group/datajournalismitaly?pli=1
 * we would like to do in the near future is to revamp http://it.ckan.net/ upgrading to newer CKAN version and importing more data. We are waiting for David Read to upgrade it for us.

Tom, OKFN Local: Brazil

 * planning hackathon with wikimedia, research on FOI

Michaela, OKFN Local: Czech Republic

 * we are in incubating period, had out first meetup, more info on about #opendatacz in my post on OKFN blog (http://bit.ly/wm1qDi)

United Kingdom

 * 3rd #opendataLDN meetup in London, UK on January 30th: http://ow.ly/8mMaE

Germany

 * 10th January OKF DE meetup Berlin
 * 11th D2B1 open data meetup Berlin
 * 13th - 15th Hackday Hamburg
 * 20th - 22nd Hackday Köln
 * 25th Data Driven Journalism meeting Berlin
 * Also planning of set up a consultation / workshop service for local gov authorities on how to open up their data. Also planning to  roll out local datacatalogues (CKAN) and local budget transparency  sites (e.g. openspending) both on city administration level. more at: http://okfn.de/community/kalender/

Czech Repubic

 * first week in Feb - lauch of an umbrella web for czech opendata initiatives (a project by OSF Prague www.osf.cz)
 * 17th February - Data driven journalism workshop (organised by One World Social Innovation http://jedensvet.cz/newmedia/en/)
 * Feb (date still not fixed as far as I know) - Austrian-Czech political conference (organized by OpenData.cz http://opendata.cz/en)
 * all 3 events are being planned right know, more info soon

Brazil

 * meetup coming up on Jan 28th with Open Science OKF networks

Ending Notes

 * Next Skype call for Feb will be scheduled by Doodle poll, with new OKFN:Local organisers to be introduced! In meantime, please direct any questions for Kat or the community to our Skype group or on IRC at freenode/ #okfn.