On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 12:55 PM, satyaakam goswami <[email protected]>wrote:
> Just to get a heads up on the number of people going to turn up for the > event , please RSVP on the Facebook page > https://www.facebook.com/events/1389520307986388/ created by Anant . > > Hi All, last week we met at the HILA (hila.in) office and talked about what Datameet is and what we are planning to do for ODC 2014 this year , Anant spoke at length about what is happening with Open data and his particular interests in Politics of it , the week before that Hyderabad had rains and hailstorms and there were some low lying areas which were flooded , Hyderabad municipal corporation did have any data with respect to where the water gets flooded in scenarios like these , he also talked about http://projecthundi.wordpress.com/page/2/ , he said as a long term goal Hyderabad Urban Labs can anchor Open data initiatives in Hyderabad , after that we looked at the present data on election and scraped few . There were some interesting projects HUL is doing particularly the Munn maps http://203.124.106.1/~amphi/gunj/ overlay over Google maps , I personally found it interesting to look up where my grandparents lived and how it has changed over the years , also i noticed the receding waterlines of lakes , there were around 10 people present both tech and non tech who are interested in participating in these kind of initiatives , Anant will be putting these ideas into some form so that Tech people can help seeing the light of the data , here is the http://piratepad.net/98i1A5bpWI we shared while at the event . Also i took some pictures https://plus.google.com/photos/118131677760195552668/albums/5991493509468005937 , we called it a day with Hyderabadi Biryani . I personally want to thank HUL for coming forward and helping organizing this meeting . In coming days after the ODC 2014 we plan to call for a meetup again . thanks -Satya Satyaakam.net <http://satyaakam.net/> | fossevents.in | fossacademy.org -- 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/d/optout.
