SaoPauloODD-SP2013

Get involved in the Brazilian Open Data movement!

We are hosting this great event around the city, we are looking for hackers, designers and citizens willing to help build a better transparency with technology as a drive.

= Open Data in Brazil = Since 2011 a movement started in Brazil called Transparência Hacker. With more than 10 hackathons arount the country since the beginning, and more than 20 apps developed to empower citizens and enhance our government operations, we are expecting to have this big hackathon and do more for our country. We are looking for different places around Brasília-DF where citizens, developers, designers and journalists can collaborate in order to transform open data and ideas into useful apps for our society.

= Date/Time =
 * Date: February 23rd.
 * Time: 10:30 to ~23:59

= Places hosting = Add any place where you are available to host and organize.
 * CCD - Casa da Cultura Digital on Rua Vitorino Carmilo, 459 - Santa Cecilia next to Metrô Marechal Deodoro

= Who's invited? = ''Add your name if you would assist to any available place, or if you want to give an open talk to the audience. We will be preparing a hangout for presentations and pitches. ''

Confirmed Guests

 * Pedro Markun
 * Daniela Silva
 *  - your@email.com
 * Mail list to Guests

Presentations
= Available Resources =
 * Portal Brasileiro de Dados Abertos
 * Lista de bases de Dados

Data scraped from the federal parliament (http://www.camara.gov.br/):
 * Travels in official missions
 * law projects in the parliament
 * votes on these law projects

= Ideas proposed =

Existing rough visualizations on the data from above
 * travels
 * tags of the law projects
 * presence of the deputados in the parliament
 * deputados similarity based on similar votes
 * similar votes between deputados

Convert the camara (www.camara.gov.br, www.camara.sp.gov.br) data to interlinked (LOD) rdf
Using for instance the schema used by GovTrack for the US congress.

= Contact = For details please visit:
 * SITE DA TRANSPARÊNCIA HACKER
 * Mail list to Guests

For more information contact @markun or @danielabsilva team.

Feel free to edit whether you are considering to add a place, idea or any other information to have a great event.