Sorry for the delay. I was in charge of taking notes! I am not very good at it so please add anything I missed.
Here they are... hopefully also some food for thought for tomorrow's bangalore meeting! Agenda: updates group business larger strategy delhi group strategy - - how do we organize the meetups NIC - delhi instance -requesting datasets Saatya - Working with NIC NIC's Data.gov.in New site will launch next month. There will be more functionality and it will be SAIS enabled so that new instances can be made for states and cities easily. It will be separate from other data management systems and could be another option from ckan and socrata. They will ramp up on social, communication, and community Group Business DataMeet becoming Trust. Current problems we are trying to fix. Google group now at 600 members - Email lists don't grow well how do we keep the momentum going and keep the discussion on the group useful. - build out website where we have a place for events, projects, information in one place People are asking for support for individual projects and also asking if there is a place where they can find projects they can work on. - market place of ideas and projects where people can put their idea and find people to work on it. And also access funds to get the project finished. Getting groups started in new places - interest in having a datameet in other cities but having a hard time getting started. Events - Data related events are on teh rise. We can do focused events on how to work with open data and how we can make it useful Skill building - people want more skill building events we can help organize and publicize them. Big Questions How do we better organize groups across the country? what is datameet work? two or three things that datameet does how do we measure the output of the group what are the two or three problems we are trying to fix? access data from government helping people use that data. how do you get it? what do you do with it? what does datameet mean for delhi? more exposure to different groups especially non technology organizations Datameet while is not great at providing useful project output based events. It is really helpful when understanding the diversity of what is happening. When you go to a datameet you learn about what is going on in data in India. Useful things we can do list of sources they can share data - directory of data Build out narratives and instructions on; what it means to be an open data organizations? we share lots of things mini showcases on the site Presentations on what different things are going on in the data ecosystem. Aggreate different blogposts around data into on place. planet of the blogs collaborate blog tools aggregation of tools and data repository Each city should pick one thing - and follow up with it showcase bit- discover events, etc and bring them to the meetings what support do people need and use the network to figure how to get it to them Advocate for a local state/city instance of data.gov.in increase university/student outreach - How do we maintain the strengths of the current datameet different skillsets keep the diversity keep it alive what are the different audiences and what are they trying to get out of the meetup APPS WE WILL NO LONGER MAKE: woman safety panic apps complaint logging apps -- Nisha Thompson Mobile: 962-061-2245 -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
