Chapters/Brazil

Português

Contact person

 * Everton Zanella Alvarenga (a. k. a. Tom)

Agenda

 * Run through - OKF structure.
 * Time dedication, community coordinator
 * Coordination group
 * Sustainability plan

Chapter focus
Initially, we propose the following goals for the Brazilian chapter (you can suggest changes or other goals on the mailing list or the discussion page):
 * 1) raise awareness on and promote open government data and facilitate the dialogue between civil society and government about this issue
 * 2) run and create sustainable open knowledge projects on local content, such as the government data projects "Where does my money go", "They work for you", "What do they know"
 * 3) use the projects above among others to make scientific research on government data
 * 4) bring together open content communities and people who share Open Knowledge Foundation vision (in Portuguese) to create projects and promote free/open knowledge
 * 5) foster a datajournalism community in Brazil

Important: the community we want to build is nonprofit and nonpartisian, and the main goal is to persue OKFn vision with sustainable projects and a vibrant community.

Groups and people
People and groups wich share Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFn) values and possibly can colabotate with us or we can collaborate with them on projects related to open content. Some of these groups haven't been contacted yet and some people already contacted are not listed due to privacy reasons. If you are interested in helping with Open Knowledge Foundation Brazil or know of any person or group who can be interested, please, contact us through the email [mailto:info@br.okfn.org info (at) br (dot) okfn (dot) org]. See the actual list:
 * People

Actions

 * Contact people and interested groups (in progress, see here)
 * First projects (ideas):
 * Queremos saber: Alaveteli (like Ask the EU, What do they know) - rounding up the Freedom of Information Law requests and responses
 * Para onde vai o meu dinheiro: Open spending / Where does my money go
 * They work for you like (talked to people from demo.cratica.org and Regards Citoyens in OGDCamp)
 * "Observatório do Domínio Público" or something to that effect (like the Public Domain Review, could watch for the content on the Brazilian Public Domain Portal, and provide public domain calculators)
 * Open Machado de Assis (literary notes using Annotator, in similar fashion to Open Shakespeare)
 * A SKOS library for Python (built on RDFLib, could be used for implementing controlled vocabularies in CKAN)

Chapter Base

 * Sao Paulo

Documentation

 * Portuguese translation of the Open Knowlege Foundation vision.
 * Manual de Dados Abertos (Open Data Manual in Portuguese)
 * Frequentely Asked Questions (FAQ)

Reports
In this section there are reports from the work being done by the incubating Brazilian chapter. They are in English and will be done weekly. To follow a summary of the work done until now reported in Portuguese, visit this blog post. We are maintaining the activities in Brazil through OKFn Brazil blog posts and regular reports will be done in Portuguese each two weeks.


 * Actual month (under construction)
 * Report from November 2011 to February 2012 (under construction)

Communication

 * Mailing list:
 * Mailing list (now in English, but in the future also in Portuguese)
 * Blog:
 * http://br.okfn.org
 * Microblog:
 * Twitter: @OKFnBR
 * identi.ca: @OKFnBR

Meetings and events
Meetings discussed online and their logs.

Past

 * 5th October:
 * 5th of October meeting
 * Attendees: Everton Zanella Alvarenga and Lucy Chambers


 * 22nd October:
 * In person: after Open Knowledge Camp, on the 22th of October
 * Attendees: OKFn staff, Tom, Daniela and Pedro


 * 25th to 27th October:
 * Presential: National meeting on Open Government Data in Brazil, Brasília, on the 25th to 27th of October


 * 18th and 18th of November


 * In person: mid November, Rio de Janeiro, during W3C conference