London2013

The London Open Data Hackathon 2013:


 * Location - C4CC Centre for Creative Collaboration – 16 Acton Street, London
 * Sign-up - on eventbrite if you wish to physically attend this event. (Remote participation via internet is also welcome and encouraged if you can't be there)
 * Time : 11am onwards. Pub o'clock (5pm?) would be a good time to finish.
 * Lunch: We will have only limited snacks but have kettle, tea & coffee :) So please try and bring your own lunch so we can hack hard right through the lunch break!

okfn org page

we are coordinating on a google doc

Agenda
Among other things we’ll be looking at PyBossa & the Crowdcrafting platform for creating citizen science apps, data wrangling some Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) open data, the Open Research Data Handbook, and the Open Data Census (see below).

We’ll end the day with a live link-up to Creative Commons, San Francisco to join with their Open Data Day activities.

Our main focus will be The Census.

The Open Data Census project is about monitoring the state of open government data around the world. We think Open Data Day is a great opportunity to extend and update the census in several ways. Some ideas:

Develop and contribute to the census – for example:
 * More countries with complete info for a given country (plus update / checking of exist data e.g. urls for data location)
 * Multiple years
 * More datasets to look at (possibly with topic focuses – e.g. we could do a transport focused section of the census)
 * Translation
 * New City Data Census focused on data from cities rather than countries
 * Visualize and analyze the results by improving the Census Dashboard and doing full analysis

One of the great things of Open Data Census is that there is need for every kind of skill from data gatherer to programmer, analyst to designer and visualizer.

Participants

 * Ross Mounce @RMounce (OKFN, onsite co-ordinator)
 * John Sandall @John_Sandall
 * @harry_wood - Planning to be there. Big OpenStreetMap enthusiast and HOT board member. Interested in Pybossa.
 * Please add your name here if you want

Note that the canonical (and much bigger) list of attendees can be seen on the eventbrite page

Projects
If you have a project you want to work on, please add it here. Bring-Your-Own projects and ideas are thoroughly welcome :)