Working Groups/coord/meetings/2010-12-07

1700 - 1800 UK time Tuesday 7th December 2010

Arranged via doodle poll - http://doodle.com/sf3bf53zr45u9nrz

AGENDA

 * 1) updates from WG attendees
 * 2) Previous actions
 * 3) supporting the "get involved" process
 * 4) coord meetings after christmas 2010
 * 5) new project proposals - http://okfn.org/projects/proposals

Actions
ACTION: MM put up coord group call summaries onto wiki ACTION: add to coord calls process that people who cannot attend should add a note to the pad ACTION: JH get in contact with OSI re adoption of Open Definition ACTION: MM document get involved process ACTION: MM to chase ant beck about project proposal (JG already talked to him couple of months ago) ACTION: MM & RP to sort ideas.okfn.org ACTION: MM announce to coord that we need someone to be identica / twitter master. who would like to do it - talk to people etc. Was Jo Walsh initially

SC (Archaeology and OKF Italia)

 * 2 day meeting Open Data conference (TOP-IX)
 * Great participation (SC, RP and others there)
 * SC article in newspaper
 * Url for write-ups: http://blog.okfn.org/2010/12/07/turin-open-data/ also preparing an Italian summary of the workshop on 2nd
 * Open Gov Data Licence
 * SC - part time appointment with NEXA centre -- Hurrah!!
 * http://it.okfn.org/
 * http://it.ckan.net/ will be aliased as http://catalogo.datagov.it/ (need to get isitopendata running in Italian as well)

JM (Science):

 * Working group meeting Wed 1st Dec
 * Apols from RP (travelling!)
 * Any write-up of the meeting on http://science.okfn.org/ ?
 * Perhaps list events on a dedicated google calendar (easy to embed in science.okfn.org)?
 * Talk in Oxford and planning meetup on Open Data and Open Data in Science
 * Heather's work on isitopen requests
 * Maybe pull a bit of material together on http://science.okfn.org/

FL (OKF Germany and CKAN):

 * Good contacts in Germany and making great progress expanding open data community
 * Christian Kreutz
 * MoU - TBD asap!
 * CKAN new instances: http://wiki.okfn.org/ckan/instances
 * Netherlands (Gov instance)
 * Helsinki Infoshare
 * 5+ community catalogues in last month!
 * ~500+ packages
 * http://ckan.org/ - http://blog.ckan.org/

RP (WDMMG):

 * Phase 2 was launched
 * Tie-in with 25k spending announce and OGDC
 * http://wheredoesmymoneygo.org/2010/12/01/where-does-my-money-go-phase-2-a-review-and-some-next-steps/
 * 5 different countries from OGDC for loading data
 * Work with Ugandan spending
 * FL + RP + APS have converted to mongodb
 * Abortive attempt again with RDF
 * RDF: http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/wdmmg-discuss/2010-December/000744.html

Daniel : Open Definition + Open Gov Workshop

 * more OKD translations
 * approval process: world bank, open gov licence (UK), Italian licence, ...

JH: (LOD2 + ODC)

 * Blog post? (picking up steam)
 * Open Data Commons - stable. Some additional uptake. Need website work and some more community building work.

Chapters
Massive vote of thanks to Jordan for drafting these!

DRAFT chapters process at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Dqfrdgn50Q5w28kCDVIp3KtMjrw9TDAh2lGDnvNtA4g/edit?hl=en&authkey=CJPDluQL NOTE THAT THIS IS A DRAFT.

Draft OKFNDE MOU 

Get Involved

 * Created a process.
 * Need a list of things to do or people to send people to

http://okfn.org/groups/create

How should we use "groups" going forward - relationship with projects, working groups, regional groups etc.
 * RP: IMO should just let people create groups for any of these.

New Projects
http://okfn.org/projects/proposals/


 * Open theses
 * MM has emailed Peter Murray-Rust and Daniel Mietchen but no update as yet
 * PMR + DM's talk has been accepted
 * Heritage Method Store
 * Stefano: spoke about this at last WG meeting
 * Young Action For Health - interesting, let's start the conversation
 * Move to http://ideas.okfn.org/