Notes from Coord Meeting 16th May 2011

May 16, 2011 in Meeting Notes

Present: Lucy Chambers (chair), Primavera De Filippi, Jason Kitcat

Apologies: Jonathan Gray, Daniel Dietrich, Friedrich Lindenberg, Adrian Pohl, Rufus Pollock

## Availability

  • Lucy Chambers –5 days
  • Primavera De Filippi
  • Jason Kitcat – 3.5 days, spread across the week
  • Jonathan Gray
  • Daniel Dietrich
  • Friedrich Lindenberg
  • Adrian Pohl
  • Rufus Pollock – In transit in Netherlands and Hungary – intermittent access to emails

## Agenda

  • Catchups
  • Plans for the future
  • Matters Arising

## Catchups

### Lucy

  • Workshops preceding OKCon (Done!)
  • Meeting JK and JG in Brighton

### Jonathan

### Jason

  • Lots of contracts work and chats with Tim McM, Gregor, James G
  • Very productive meeting with Lucy & Jonathan
  • Some work on finance, Xero etc

### Stefano

  • long chat with LC ‒ major step forward to better organise my OKF activity

### Daniel

  • OKCon provisional programme and speakers list published
  • OKCon lots of mail conversation 😉
  • OKF DE: preparation of Berlin Open Data Day (Mai, 18th, see link here) were we will also announce an berlin open data agenda
  • OKF DE: Preparing Open Data Competition Germany (with ministry of the interior)

### Primavera

  • finalized OpenData Statement from CC-france. what next?
  • preliminary implementation of publicdomainworks.net – suggestions? 😉
  • call for volunteers to implement new PDC flowcharts & convert them into code

## Week Ahead

### Lucy

  • OKFN FAQ / Users Manual
  • Who is Who!

### Jason

  • Wrestle with Barclays
  • Sweep tickets in Basecamp & Trac
  • More CKAN thinking/integration/coord with LOD2 work

### Stefano

  • two OpenSpending calls with activists from Italy
  • call to kickstart working group on Open Bibliographic Data in Italy
  • Talk in Imola at the annual meeting of SME young entrepreneurs
  • OKCon-related contacts (Eleanor Robson etc)

### Primavera

  • get in touch with Elizabeth Townsend to figure out things about OKCon
  • finalize publicdomainworks.net – search form & themes
  • plan the next developments of pdw.net – own db ? link to urls ?
  • find coders for pdw.net + coders to implement the other calculators
  • Rob Myers to integrate freebase data into bibliographica (need help from William Waites)

### Tim McNamara:

Goals

  • migrating opendatamanual.org to Sphinx, so anyone can fork the repo and contribute
  • finishing the opengovernmentdata.org FAQ
  • getting all of the data from opengovernmentdata.org that’s imported via Google Spreadsheets to CKAN.net
  • writing a list of annexes to the Open Data Manual where contributions are welcome
  • writing guides for contributions, such as translations, for Open Data Manual, opengovernmentdata.org
  • discussions with Department of Internal Affairs on collaboration surrounding Mix & Mash 2011 (an govt. data competition)
  • content writing, esp. Open Data Manual, writing a list of data sources

Maybes

  • mocking up wireframes of a Sphinx theme for prose, rather than technical documentation
  • learn what Fluidinfo is
  • create a comparison document between alternatives for bulk data storage

Related/own time

  • generate iCal feeds for all events/consultation deadlines from New Zealand government agencies
  • scrape more govt. data

#### Events:
Wednesday: Meeting with Land Information New Zealand officials on the New Zealand Open Government Data and Information Charter

#### Upcoming:
23rd: Meeting with officials from Archives New Zealand re the Government Digital Archive Programme (GDAP)

## Matters Arising

  • Primavera: JK – extra coders Public Domain works? Contact needed…
  • Primavera: JK – Contract?
  • Friedrich: Can we get an okf lawyer on the 1st of June in Berlin? – will ask JG

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