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Open Data Day Barcelona


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In Barcelona we will be celebrating this important date at MOB/Made with a day packed of events :-). We are a Urban Beers, an informal group of people that get together once in a while, to discuss topics that stand in the intersection between technology and the future of the cities.

The official language of the ODD will be English, although there may be a limited number of presentations in another language (castellano).

Short Presentations + Discussion
Time: 11:30-13:30h

In the morning we will have short presentations, in Pecha Kucha "style", that reflect different aspects of open data. This is the list of confirmed speakers, but we will be accepting submissions till 3pm, on Thursday, 20th February (please use the registration form):


 * "Opengov in Catalonia. Visualising organisation charts, digging documents; stories and surprises." Concha Catalan, Govern Obert
 * "OpenStreetMap: ¿Qué es? ¿Cómo colaborar? utilidades y ventajas", Carlos Lopez, PSIG (this presentation will be given in castellano)
 * "Open Networks InfoVis OpenData Guifinet": josepjc, PireneLab
 * "Active communities of citizens using data to monitor and to inform in Italy": Valentina Bazzarin University of Bologna
 * "Infigraphics and education": Ignasi Alcalde ignasialcalde
 * "Open Procurement - Agile Cities": Sascha Haselmayer, Citymart

Hackathon
Time: 14:30-18:30h


 * The hackathon will focus on developing/using tools for translating data into "usable" formats, that will ease its analysis. We will deal with documents of the Catalan public administration, and different projects will be suggested. We welcome developers from all languages, journalists, economists, hackers, and curious people in general.

Here is an example of a dataset we would like to "hack" and here is an example of related content hackathon.

As it happened in similar events, we would like to dedicate this hackathon to the memory of the programmer, writer and internet activist: Aaron Swartz



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Remarks
--The registration is closed now. We hope to see you on Saturday!--

Hackathon is a free event, run by volunteers. If you would like to support us with your donations, you may do so using this bitcoin wallet.

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