Working Groups/euopendata/7

= Seventh EU Open Data Call =


 * When: Tuesday, June 8th at 1700 GMT, 6pm CET
 * strict limit to one hour
 * Where: Skype or Telephone conference and Openpad for notes.
 * Backup channel: #okfn IRC channel on irc.oftc.net
 * you can connect via Mibbit
 * Chair: Jonathan Gray (IRC: jwyg Skype: jwygray).

Organizing the calls

 * Next call: Tuesday, July 13th at 1700 GMT, 6pm CET
 * Next call chair: Your name here?
 * Read more about the Working Group Coordinator

Participants this time

 * Jonathan Gray (UK, OKFN)
 * Antti Poikola (Finland)
 * Federico Morando (IT, NEXA)
 * Heiko Stoermer (IT, OKKAM)
 * Andreas Harth from (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE)
 * Ivan Herman, W3C

See the introductions of the participants

1. Participants for next call

 * Please visit the openpad and mark there if you are able to participate: http://pad.okfn.org/okfn-euopendata

2. Introductions

 * If you have not done already, please go add a short introduction about yourself at:
 * http://wiki.okfn.org/euopendata/Introductions

3. Topics

 * Please send to this list all ideas and specific topics you have in mind for next meeting.

Agenda

 * Welcoming new members
 * Go over last meeting's action items

Open data Guide for Europe
Ossi Kuittinen (Finnish member of ISTAG) was interested to help us get funding for translating and  extending the open data guidebook to European scope. Concept would be to:


 * Translate the Finnish guidebook into english (straight-forward)
 * Revise the content and extend it to European scope (combinig other existing guides)
 * Hire authors from different European countries to contribute in the project
 * Do ewerything as openly as possible using the internet collaboration tools
 * Publish the book in traditional + wiki version

Goals for open data guide for europe


 * boosting digital agenda
 * revitalizing democracy

Possible partners EU level


 * Information and Communication Technologies Advisory Group ISTAG http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/istag/home_en.html
 * Open Innovation Strategy and Policy Group (OISPG)

See: http://knowledgeforge.net/okfn/tasks/ticket/329

w3c working group idea: education and outreach

Licensing issue: recommendations about the licensing not oly the technical  recommendations

w3c group propably will not cover licensing since that is not the experience

The target would be to have solid

Some sort of synchronization with 3wc is very wellcome - coordination More people from outside of US and UK are wellcome to w3c working groups

Andreas: Rudi Studer is doing lobbying in Germany to get gov't to publish data.. We're also in contact wtih some regional statistical offices.

What resources do you have for the "Open Data Manual"


 * Handful of people involved (Spain, EPSI, etc.)
 * Federico: EVPSI (www.evpsi.org)  working on an open data manual in Italian.
 * Input from quite a lot of people

Core author-group (3-5 European contries)
 * Namedropping: Tom Steinberg, Katleen Janssen?, Becky Hogge
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becky_Hogge
 * http://blog.okfn.org/2010/06/01/open-government-data-in-the-uk-us-and-further-afield-new-report/

London Workshop
Workshop (held by the Cabinet Office) in London November November 7-11. there is the Semantic Web Conference in Shanghai (2nd half of the Nov is possible)

High interest of NEXA (also technical issues and semantic web related issues) / EVPSI / LAPSI (policy issues)  to be involved

Call quality issue?
This conf call system have worked previously for 3wc. Maybe the Skype-out is the problem, but on the other hand if there is no local cll in number (Finland, Denmark,  Norway etc.) then the cost of the call is the issue :/

Any thoughts and suggestions for the Call infrastructure are wellcome.

Action Items

 * Ivan: to set up ICT2010
 * Antti: follow up about open data manual
 * Abstract / Table of contents translation from Finnish manual
 * Write on the list and ask who is interested to contribute as co-author  (core group 3-5 persons from different countries)
 * Ivan: follow up about ICT 2010
 * Ivan will set up a Doodle  query for people interested to join the call on next Monday or Tuesday