2013/Projects

About this Page
Listed below are projects that might be interesting for you to participate in, or do a local version of for your community. Projects are listed by type - to help identify what are the types of skills a participant needs to have and by level of difficulty - this is an estimate on the skill level required.

Please do add projects to this list!

Projects
Projects have been divided into three 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
 * other types - am open to the possibility that there might be other types of projects for different skill sets

Adopt-a-Hydrant

 * You could create an "adopt-a-something" in your community
 * Project Page
 * Github Repo
 * Example of it in action
 * Level of Difficulty: Low
 * Language: Ruby

MapIt

 * A great project by MySociety in the UK that you can contribute to
 * Project Page
 * GitHub repo
 * Level of Difficulty: High
 * Language:

Wheredoesmymoneygo

 * Awesome project to make government and other organization budgets easier to understand
 * Project page

Open Data Census Challenge
As a part of Open Data Day 2013 Open Knowledge Foundation brings you the Open Data Census Challenge: become an Open Data Detective and help locate open (and closed) datasets in cities around the world. It’s easy, it’s funny – and anyone can play along!


 * Who can do this? Anyone, but especially those who like digging information up on the internet!
 * Timeframe of the challenge: the 23rd of February (all day long)
 * Where: Online and in person at Open Data Day events around the world
 * How do I participate: see the information below
 * Background: we’re contributing information to the Open Data Census which aims to assess and present the state of open government data around the world

Read more and signup here: http://okfn.org/events/open-data-day-2013/census/

Open Data on Hackathons (ODOH)
Contact : Pascal Robichaud, Données ouvertes 101, [mailto:info@do101.org info@do101.org], @DO101Mtl (Montréal, Canada)
 * (Updated / Mise à jour : 2013-01-17)