Tuesday Hangout/pads/hangout-20111220

Tuesday hangout of 20th of December.

Attendees (include email address)

 * Sam Leon [IRC = samleon]- sam.leon at okfn.org - Community Coordinator at the Open Knowledge Foundation. I am the first point of contact for people looking to get involved with the OKFN. I also work closely with the public domain and cultural heritage working groups, and promote the Public Domain Review. Based in London (w the coolest coworker *ever*)
 * Tom [IRC = everton137]  - OKFn Brazil and Wikimedia Brasil
 * Kat Braybrooke [IRC = keyboardkat] - kat.braybrooke at okfn.org - Community Coordinator and Local Chapter lead at OKFN. Based in London. If want to talk about regional groups/global stuff, talk to me :)
 * Al-Scandar Solstag [IRC=solstag]  : Researcher working at a large health institution in Rio called Fiocruz. Mostly interested in Open Science stuff. Also likes to mess with Free Software and Wikimedia. Lives in São Paulo, where teaches at universities and culture centers.
 * Lucy Chambers [IRC = lucychambers]- Community Coordinator on OpenSpending, Official IRC Bully but lovely really -- ;) - OI!
 * Laura James [IRC = LaurieJ] - new OKFN Foundation Coordinator, handling budgets and contracts and so on (but also very excited about all our super projects). Based in Cambridge UK
 * Duke [IRC = dukex]  - OKFn Brazil and THacker - Hacker at Transparecia Hacker and Ruby Programmer, my github is github.com/emersonvinicius. Lives in São Paulo, Brazil
 * Jonas Xavier [IRC = jonas_agx]  - Wikimedia Brasil, I play guitar :)

Questions

 * How to improve "Geting involved page"?
 * Add these pages http://okfn.org/projects/propose/ and http://okfn.org/projects/ (Duke)

Ideas

 * use data from views number from wikipedia pages and use this to find web trends (Jonas) - Wikimedia Foundation share data about page views from wikipedia, the historical series can be used to preview trends thru the web. Google is doing it to follow the behavior of things like deseases (dengue fever, flu), but it's just the tip of the iceberg. Imagine how many other things we can understand just describing web raw data and finding correlations between what else is possible. One problem is: wikipedia is not using a user track tool, it's not so easy join page views and region (but solvable).

Action points

 * Improve the get involved page: http://wiki.okfn.org/Joining_the_Community
 * OCR project draf. Improve it to go to ideas incubator: http://okfnpad.org/scratchpad
 * Improve Tuesday hangout page: http://wiki.okfn.org/Tuesday_Hangout