Community Dashboard Hackday Nov 2011


 * Are you coming? Sign up on the meetups.com page.
 * Elf Pavlik is hosting a Berlin meetup at the same time for hackers who want to join in from the OKFN DE office.

The Community Dashboard hackday is an online and in-person event for designers, developers and friends to develop the Community Dashboard.

We'll start at 12pm (GMT) on Saturday 19th November:
 * Online - meet us in #okfn on irc.freenode.org,
 * in the London Barbican centre
 * and in the Berlin OKFN offices.

A Community Dashboard?
We want to build a page for visitors to see an overview of #opendata events, projects, and happenings all over the globe.

The requirements of this Dashboard are happily fuzzy - we're imagining a Google Maps mashup with information about blog posts, latest news from working groups, deployments of software projects, activity on the Data Hub, etc, so there will be lots of room to play! Because we can build anything we like, there's plenty of opportunity for everybody to influence how it turns out.

Real-Life Meetups
The hack day is primarily a virtual event to be coordinated on IRC, but we also want to support people who want to meet in-person.

We'll be meeting up in London and in Berlin.

To organise your own in-person meetup please use the OKFN Meetup page and add it here so we can help promote it.

Tasks
We're going to spend a day developing the Community Dashboard and creating a finished piece that users can then interact with on the Open Knowledge Foundation site.

Details: Community Dashboard

From Elf Pavlik: We could take topic of Community Dashboard and try to have some cool functional piece ready after that. Not sure if we may like to do it just one day or weekend or whatever but I believe everyone interested in participating may want to influence it! Myself I have xp with finding nice bio vegan food there and could prepare some hearty food for us all!

I feel quite excited about diving into backbone.js, some visualization libraries, mapping (openlayers/leaflet/?) and stitching together something we all feel excited before looking at and have fun interacting with regularly.

From Kat Braybrooke: "Ideally, I'd also really like designers who can work with Basalmiq and do mock-ups etc to join us too, because we'd like to make this Dashboard a key part of the new Open Knowledge Foundation website, which we are in the process of redesigning right now to make it more community-focused and interactive. Would be great to end up with a finished prototype at the end of today that we can then implement on the site."

Extra Credit
From Jonathan Gray: To coincide with Open Data Day, we were thinking of running an 'Open Data Census' to map open data initiatives around the world.

"http://www.opendataday.org/"

This might be as simple as capturing a photo, a URL, or a brief message on a map - to give a sense of all the interesting open data stuff that is going on around the world.

Do you think we could use the fruits of your OKFN Community Dashboard sprint to help do this?