Community Roles/Bulletin Editor

Assists with preparing Bulletins like the Open Government Data Bulletin.

= Open Government Data Bulletin Editors =

Editors

 * Anna Kuliberda
 * Robin Smith

Responsibilities

 * Help submit notices (some things don't come through to the list and some people will just want to mail and not also add to the bulletin)
 * Review submissions in case of spam or duplication (just looking through the spreadsheet) and perhaps add extra info (like date and place)

FAQ

 * How we deal with "submitter part"?
 * The editor won't be a submitter and we don't know if he/she would want to be mentioned. Should it be private by default? and in the URL part should the editor put the url of the message?
 * Ans: when entering a notice from a an announce from someone else suggest we leave submitter and url blank. (In cases where clearly credit should be wanted we can put original submitter name and possibly there home page url)

Background
Original email to mailing list: http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-government/2011-November/001760.html

As a member of the working group and a subscriber to this list I regularly see announces of interesting open government data developments and activities -- hackdays, data releases, policy changes, license adoptions etc. (Here's just one example from Anne Fitzgerald yesterday [1]).

[1]: http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-government/2011-November/001751.html

It is great to have these notices coming through to the list but I've been thinking for a while that it would be nice to collect these in a slightly more organized fashion in addition to having them come to the list (or surface via twitter etc). Prompted by Anne's mail yesterday, I've booted up a quick google form and put it online here:

http://opengovernmentdata.org/bulletin/

The idea is people can submit "notices" here -- short summaries like the ones sent to the list. These notices will automatically get republished back onto the site (not quite done but on the way -- I'd like this to be nicer than a simple embed of the spreadsheet!).

We can also do a monthly or quarterly summary to the list (that will be much easier to put together than via a wade through the list archives!). In addition will have a permanent record that can grow over time and allow us to see how things have developed.

To assist in carrying this out we probably need 1 or 2 volunteer "Bulletin Editors" who:


 * Help submit notices (some things don't come through to the list and some people will just want to mail and not also add to the bulletin)
 * Review submissions in case of spam or duplication (just looking through the spreadsheet) and perhaps add extra info (like date and place)