Notes from Project & Coord Call, 5/3/12

March 5, 2012 in Uncategorized

# Projects Meeting

Projects meeting 5th March. 1pm UK time. (1300 UTC)

## Participants
* Lucy Chambers – Community Coordinator
* Daniel Dietrich – Chapter Lead – Germany
* Velichka Dimitrova – Open Economics
* Hauke Gierow – Community Coordinator – Germany
* Adam Green – Public Domain Review Dude
* Laura James – Foundation Coordinator
* Naomi Lillie – Community Coordinator and Foundation Administrator
* Sam Leon – Community Coordinator
* Friedrich Lindenberg – OpenSpending & Many many other projects
* Laura Newman – Community Coordinator
* Joris Pekel – DM2E
* Tom Rees – Code Poet (Community Dashboard, CKAN, labs.okfn.org,)

## Apologies
* Ira Bolychevsky – Product Owner – CKAN
* Kat Braybrooke – Community Coordinator
* Christian Chiarcos – Open Linguistics
* Stefano Costa – Open Archaeology
* Tim Davies – Open Development
* Primavera de Filippi – Public Domain Calculators / Open Metadata Handbook
* James Harriman-Smith – Open Humanities
* Peter Hicks – Open Transport
* Mark MacGillivray – Open Biblio
* Jenny Molloy – Open Science Working Group
* Peter Murray-Rust – Open Science Working Group / Open Biblio
* Sebastian Nordhoff – Open Linguistics
* Rufus Pollock – BDFL
* Mark Wainwright – Community Coordinator (CKAN)

## Agenda
* 2 minute Updates (feel free to type in the ## updates section while people are doing their introductions)

## Updates:

### Open Biblio:
* Coding and planning sprint next Mon-Weds (12th-14th March)
* Meet-up in Edinburgh next Tuesday (13th March) evening http://www.meetup.com/OpenKnowledgeFoundation/Edinburgh-GB/618812/
* Save the date: 12th-14th June Hackathon in London
* Mark has been coding to improve functionality: http://openbiblio.net/2012/02/21/json-ld-bibjson/
* PMR has been busy on many things, check out his blog http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/

### OpenSpending
* Software for participatory budgeting call (Notes coming soon & a followup call as there was too much to talk about!)

### DM2E (Joris)
* Last thursday/friday official Kickoff!
* Lots of work to do. Building project website, logo, Map the network
* Contact the different communities involved, especially the Digital Humanities
* End of the week presentation at the Working group Kultureles Erbe about collaborating in workshops, event in Berlin etc. openGLAM connected with DM2E

### Open Economics
* The Open Economics Group announced the support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation:
* The topic of last week’s Data Party was Energy and Climate Data – if anybody knows of people who could contribute with more environment-related datasets to the datahub, please help?
* The Energy and Climate Hackday gathered about 50 people in London and online, joining from Berlin, Washington D.C., Amsterdam, Graz and Bogota: . It was an event sponsored by AMEE and hosted at the offices of ThoughtWorks with a presentation from Eg Hogg, Department of Energy and Climate Change
People worked on:
1) Carbon Budget Challenge I – Historical Trends in Carbon Dioxide Emissions
2) Carbon Budget Challenge II – Future Projections
3) Phone app for World Bank missions and to communicate local climate change
4) Yourtopia 2
5) Land-use Change and Forestry (Berlin)

### OpenDataCBG
* OpenDataCBG meet-up in Cambridge a great success. 5 lightning talks and around 25 participants made for a lively evening with great discussions.

## Questions

## AOB

* Invoicing – terms are 30 days so bear in mind for due date; if you’re asked for projects info please respond promptly; back up expenses with receipts; ‘direct wages’ not correct.

## Notes

## Actions

# Coord Team Meeting

Team meeting 5th March. around 1.30 pm UK time. (13:30 UTC)

## Participants
* Lucy Chambers
* Daniel Dietrich
* Laura James
* Sam Leon
* Naomi Lillie
* Laura Newman
* Tom Rees

## Apologies
* Kat Braybrooke
* Marcus Dapp
* Theodora Middleton
* Rufus Pollock
* Mark Wainwright

## Agenda

### Updates
* [Naomi Lillie](http://notebook.okfn.org/2012/03/05/week-ahead-naomi-lillie-11/ ) <-- swot * [Daniel Dietrich](http://notebook.okfn.org/2012/03/05/week-ahead-daniel-dietrich-9/) * [Laura Newman](http://notebook.okfn.org/2012/03/05/week-ahead-laura-newman-12/) * [Laura James](http://notebook.okfn.org/2012/03/05/week-ahead-laura-james-8/) * [Rufus Pollock](http://rufuspollock.org/2012/03/05/shuttleworth-fellowship-quarterly-review-feb-2012/) ### Questions to address * Invoicing * Hypios - do we have any interest in mutual advertising etc? An 'open problem solving platform' http://www.hypios.com/preview/help (mail came to info@). NB Velichka has planned a meeting with them, 14/3. - leave VD to handle for now. * ORGCon, March 23rd. Is anyone going? Should we have a booth? - anyone welcome to go. If KB would like a booth, fine. If not, also fine. * DD suggestion - update http://wiki.okfn.org/Working_Groups/Coord - LN to do * Prix Ars Electronica - submit what we have rather than nothing at all. * GSOC

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