Victoria2013

Hello Victorian Open Data Peeps!
We are excited to be hosting another International Open Data Hackathon in Victoria. I'm working on an awesome venue sorted out. If you're interested I'd love to hear from you. Please be sure to add your name to the list of a participants if you are planning to come - we need to know if we grow beyond the capacity of the room with are booking.

More details to come. Currently involved in the organization:
 * Herb Laincbury (OpenDataBC)
 * Emma Irwin (Mozilla Reps)

Please add your name to this list if you would like to help out with organizing.

Location

 * Victoria City Hall!
 * 1 Centennial Square
 * Victoria, BC

Enter through the side entrance, here: http://goo.gl/maps/XAgQi

Time
We'll be kicking things off at 9:00am and running until 4:00pm.

Lunch
Will be provided by the City of Victoria.

Agenda
We are going to keep it relatively informal, but there will be some structure. Here is how we see things going:
 * 9-9:30 registration, arrival, networking
 * 9:30 (brief!) opening remarks by organizers and local dignitaries
 * 9:45 OpenData Dating: participants get to meet various city and other government staff about the data they have, what could be released and what could be done with it
 * 10:30 Project Sharing: participants outline what projects they will be working on for the rest of the day
 * 11-4:00pm Hacking, making, analyzing, writing and all other forms of open data work
 * 11:00 - 1:00 pm Youth/Kids Webmaker/Hackjam
 * 4:00 Debrief: Projects share what they have accomplished and learned during that day, share next steps and commitments

Participants

 * Herb Lainchbury @herblainchbury (organizer) - Data geek, Pythonista, maker
 * Emma Irwin @sunnydeveloper Mozilla Rep - organizer of youthful Webmaker/Hacker portion :)

Projects
If you have a project idea or a project you want to work on, please add it here.


 * Waterly.ca - revamp the subscription system (herb)