Present: Rufus Pollock (chair), Jason Kitcat, Peter Murray-Rust, Jonathan Gray.

Updates
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_These were provided in writing ahead of the meeting._

Updates from Jonathan Gray:

* energy.publicdata.eu
* alpha of publicdata.eu is launched
* ePSIplatform is now launched
* publicdomain.okfn.org + publicdomaincalculators.okfn.org are now set up
* lots of new developments (big and small) re: open gov data in Europe (Paris, Helsinki, Berlin, Munich, Norway, Netherlands, France, Finland, Belgium and many more)

Update from Stefano Costa:

* News from OKF Italia: we’re starting work on WDMMG for Italy together
with 2 people working at the Ministry of Economy
* on Tuesday I’ll be talking about open gov data in a panel at the Social Media Week in Rome (panel is organised by Datagov.it and will feature journalists, media experts, etc); lots of open data coming next week from Municipality of Torino (thanks to NEXA and Federico Morando)…

News from archaeology:

* open methods is basically sleeping – I’ve no time to follow it properly atm.

Update from Open Biblio:

* gave out one prize last week to Damian Steer for his start on a prototype, and will work with him and Research Revealed group further as project goes forward.
* project extended to July 2011, further work plan in progress.

Decisions
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Following a discussion on how to improve interest in these coord meetings, a quarterly meeting schedule will be trialled, next meeting to be in May 2011.

There was a detailed conversation about recruiting volunteers and how best to respond to their offers of help. It was felt that small, easy tasks were the best introduction. For example translating documents, contributing on http://isitopendata.org and/or http://getthedata.org etc

Immediate actions for JK to lead on:

* Create a volunteers mailing list
* Create a short tasks list on the get involved page
* Review get involved process