Sprint 1: Online Programming (February 2014)

The following are sprint notes from the Online Programming Session (inhouse at OKF) (February 2014) Attendees: Katelyn, Neal, Christian, Anders, Zara, Lucy, Naomi, Heather, Sam, Katelyn

We then created this short list of potential programming ideas:

I want to code….. (tech stuff)


 * How to set up a Local Groups website?
 * WordPress management, how to tweak the OKF template, managing contributors
 * CKAN 101: How to set up a CKAN community site for your city / neighborhood? Datahub.io - great, if it’s officially up
 * How to setup a Local Open Data Census?
 * Github 101: Running a community project using Github [out there already]
 * OKFN Labs project participation
 * Best of OKFLabs: Show and tell of current projects

I want to translate……

(French Local Group and their Translation of School of Data - what we did, how we mobilized people
 * How to Run A Translation Sprint


 * List of opportunities
 * Guerrilla open access manifesto
 * Open Data Handbook
 * Open definition
 * Principles (Open Glam, Panton, Open Transport)
 * FAQ sections
 * School of Data Courses
 * OpenSpending Guide and Spending Data Handbook
 * Show demand for multilingual content and current resources available in different languages
 * Figure out a plan for language curators and let them help us identify the demand (like the open MENA group has proposed and as we’ve done with the French language channel)
 * teaching the translation process/management to community
 * How to manage and run a translation project with Transifex?
 * Using google docs and wikis for translations

I want to teach…


 * How to run a data expedition - Lucy/Milena
 * Jargon busting
 * How to run a data clinic
 * General intro to ScoDa - how to find materials, what is there - Lucy/Milena/Zara
 * A run through of online courses/offline courses, what ScoDa offers generally (clinics, ask School of Data)
 * Lying with Data
 * OKF tools: OpenSpending, etc
 * How to run a local Open Data campaign (eg. this is how we won the fight for open access publishing in Japan)

I want to join the OKF community……

core places to hang out once you’re in - wiki, irc, hangouts, local meetups, etc
 * What does OKF offer
 * Who can I ask for what (point people, community leaders, etc)
 * What is OKF, how do I join
 * Tips on community building
 * What does OKF offer
 * Introduction to Open
 * What is Open knowledge, Open Definition
 * What can you do to be open
 * What does open mean in your country/context?

I want to tell my story....


 * lightning talks from key leaders from OKF Community, Central & around the Network to illustrate different things you can do at different levels of engagement - eg sign principles & tweet about them, join Labs mailing list to hear about cool tech tools & where you can contribute to them, lobby local government to release more data (inc. how to report back
 * what you do & see what others are doing - tumblr, blog posts, mailing lists)

eg. Global Voices are running a great series of community stories: GV Face: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2013/10/25/gv-face-everything-you-need-to-know-about-sudanrevolts

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