Notes from Coord Meeting 16th May 2011
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