Menu of suggested activities

So what can you do on Open Data Day? For one it might be a good idea to connect with others to collaborate (either locally or virtually). Secondly you can pick you own activity, if you have an idea, or you can be inspired by this menu of suggested activities and older blog posts with ideas.

Popular activities

 * Teach about open data in an organized class and invite people to learn about it. It can also be an ‘open class’ for example in a Park or a shopping mall.
 * Create a tweet marathon - Organise as many people as you can to tweet about open data
 * Organize a meetup - It can be a talk, round tables or a mini hack session. Anything that can bring people together.
 * Advocate in the streets. Leave the laptop for one day and go and speak to people face to face about open data. There are many cool way to do it with or without flyers…
 * Hackathon - Well, open data does have code in it, so code away!
 * Participate in CodeAcross - a weekend of civic hacking events hosted by nodes of the Code for America network around the world. Learn more here.
 * Hold an Editathon centered around Wikipedia pages local to your community.
 * Hold an Editathon centered around your LocalWiki community (Alternatively, if you do not have a LocalWiki community, you could set one up for you community on this day).
 * Hold an Iconathon to create civic symbols for the public domain. More appropriate for your community, make the Iconathon IconLocal focused and create assets to be used by your community. Learn more about focusing IconLocal here.
 * Hold a Mapathon editing OSM for your community. Organizing a Mapathon. One approach/idea to creating a Mapathon for Open Data Day would be to have community members map out wheel chair accessible locations in their community and add them to WheelMap, which is essentially an OSM layer of wheel chair accessible locations.
 * Any other idea that can help you to promote open data for one day.

Feel free to setup yourself a wiki account and add more items if you have good ideas that others could pick up on too!

Blog posts with more inspiration
If you're looking for more inspiration, here are some older blog posts about how to get involved.


 * Dave's post - Open Data Day 2014 is coming February 22nd time to join the fun
 * Planning your Open Data Day
 * Join the Get Ready for Open Data Day 2014 hangout
 * The Ubuntu Local Community is cross-promoting Open Data Day with a LoCo Global Event

Remember - this wiki is yours, so be responsible, but please add cool stuff to it! We want you to turn this thing into something special.