Hi, I hope you've all had a great start to 2012!
After a quiet first week, there was a lot of great news and many upcoming events shared during today's projects call. Here is a bulletin of the key updates! *Events: ** *Open Economics Data Party* this Wednesday 18th January, 17:00 GMT. Online meeting, all welcome! * An *OpenBiblio Sprint* for core members will be taking place in Cambridge 17th-19th January. More details here: http://openbiblio.net/2012/01/16/bibserver-code-sprint-january-2011/ * *Public Domain Day*, 26th January in Paris. * Open Economics *Apps4Italy hackathon* to take place on 27th and 28th January. Online, all welcome. Find out more and help to assemble data at http://openeconomics.net/2012/01/09/please-help-assemble-data-for-hackday/ * *Open Data Meetup* in London will be taking place on 30th January. See http://www.meetup.com/OpenKnowledgeFoundation/London-GB/472892/ for more details. *Notices:* * The OKFN is currently seeking front-end *Javascript developers*. Get in touch if you know of anyone who might be interested! * Velichka is considering entering a submission for the *Apps4Climate* * challenge*. Get in touch if you are interested in collaborating or entering a separate submission. * Feedback requested on http://offenesparlament.de/ * Know of someone interested in *Open Hardware* or *Open Design*? Contact Kat Braybrooke * A new working group on *Open Spending data* has been launched! If you know of anyone who might be interested, email info [at] openspending.org. More details at http://wiki.openspending.org/Working_Group * The main *OKFN website* has been re-designed (visit www.okfn.org if you haven't already noticed!) If you spot any bugs or issues, let Tom Rees know at http://github.com/okfn/wp-okfn-v2/issues * Applications for the *Panton Fellowships* will soon be open! Fellowships will be available for scientists working to support open data. Details soon at www.pantonprinciples.org *Further Project Updates: **CKAN* * released CKAN v1.5.1 with separate pages for each resource - live on thedatahub.org meaning you can link directly to a specific data resource page * publicdata.eu being upgraded * Multilingual features, activity streams & more coming soon * Online meetings to be kick-started again soon: the first one is likely to be on Linked Open Data. *German chapter* * The Open Data Day in Berlin was a huge success! Around 20 people attended, with lots of exciting ideas. Photos and blog post to follow. The wiki page can be viewed at *Open Science* * Hackathon was held in Cambridge last week. Discussions of HR3699+RWA - videos of Peter Murray-Rust and Cameron Neylon to follow. * Two Panton Discussions were also held with Cameron Neylon and Brian McMahon. Videos will be online soon. *Public Domain Calculators & Open Metadata* * 10 calculators implemented into code (will be uploaded on github on wed at the latest) * The Open Metadata Handbook currently being prepared for community development *OpenSpending* * OSI project started to map the technical needs of Civil Society Organisations around Spending data. More here: http://blog.openspending.org/2012/01/12/civil-society-and-spending-data-who-is-mapping-the-money/ * Work continues on the Dimensions editor - the part of OpenSpending.org which allows people to easily load in a dataset, without the requirement to write a piece of JSON. Good news for non-techies. If you have updates that you would like to include in next week's bulletin, do let me know! Kind regards, Laura -- Laura Newman Community Coordinator Open Knowledge Foundation http://okfn.org/ Skype: lauranewmanonskype
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