2014/App Ideas

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Help Track projects for people to contribute. Be sure to search community needs, github, and outputs of other data hackathons to not reinvent the wheel. Also note other lists e.g. London event has a separate ideas doc. But most of all happy making!

See also 2014/Data for datasets.

Projects
Projects can be divided into a few types:


 * Coding - these are projects that need hackers, and possibly other skills, but someone who knows how to code is essential
 * Analysis - these are projects that are more about analysis here you may need to know how to use excel, but the barrier to entry is far lower
 * Crowdsourcing - these projects need contributors to input data (often local data), usually everyone can participate
 * Other - other types of projects for different skill sets

Crowdsourcing

 * Open Food Facts is launching the What's in my yogurt? project on Open Data Day 2014. The goal is to open the data (ingredients, nutrition facts, labels etc.) for at least one yogurt of each country.
 * There is a launch announcement in multiple languages that you can adapt, translate, and/or publish here: http://okfnpad.org/p/whatsinmyyogurt_announcement
 * Pad to coordinate activities during Open Data Day: http://okfnpad.org/p/whatsinmyyogurt_opendataday2014

Other
Webmaking

These are great ways to share and get the younger participants involved in building making stuff for the open web. There are lots of accessible projects on the Webmaker platform that require only basic knowledge of html or css so they are great for people to discover how the web works, and how to build things with it.

Mozillians have put together a hack kit using Webmaker for Open Data Day for 2014

https://tiptoes.makes.org/thimble/open-data-day

This can easily be hacked / remixed - just hit the remix button to alter or localise it.

Then there are some useful resources from Webmaker for getting younger participants involved in civic hacking and particularly in documenting an event, which could easily be tailored for Open Data day for example:

How to use animated gifs to tell remix your city: https://fabspaces.makes.org/thimble/how-to-tell-stories-with-animated-gifs

Make a postcard to tell others about the event that you've been to https://juliahivenyc.makes.org/thimble/happy-holidays https://webmaker.makes.org/thimble/postcard-for-a-friend

Make a magazine cover to tell people about the day: https://naich.makes.org/thimble/remix-of-heat-remix-campus-party-edition

Make a comic strip to document things people made during the day: https://katakijano.makes.org/thimble/hackathon-2013

Explore hacking and dev tools https://tbx.makes.org/thimble/maker-party-your-first-hack-pt-2

Hack the keep calm and carry on poster: https://webmaker.makes.org/thimble/keep-calm

Make an ideas board on ways to make the web more open: https://keyboardkat.makes.org/thimble/ideas-mood-board

Each of these template activities would also need to be slightly tweaked so that it is more tailored to be about Open Data day and to focus on your specific context.

It would make sense to localise any templates that you wish to use into your own language before the event on Saturday. The webmaker site itself has been localised into many languages but many of the template makes themselves remain in English. In fact, localisation is in itself a great way to do some simple work to open up access to resources and data too.