For all of those in Berlin for OKFestival just a quick reminder that the Open Corporates <http://opencorporates.com/> team are running a series of #FlashHacks this week as part of their effort to liberate 10 million data points in 10 days. They've just launched their platform that enables civic hackers to scrape and push data to the Open Corporates database.
There are events on Wednesday and Thursday so please pop along and help Open Corporates make a serious dent into the goal of having a URL for every company in the world: *Wednesday, 16th July, 1 – 3PM CESTThe OK Germany #FlashHack will be releasing German data. Sign up here <http://attending.io/events/flashhacks-at-okfest-with-okf-germany>.* *Wednesday, 16th July, 3 – 5PM CESTThe Sunlight Foundation #FlashHack will be releasing political lobbying data. Sign up here <http://attending.io/events/flashhacks-with-sunlight-foundation>.* *Thursday, 17th July, 1 – 3PM CESTThe Code for Africa #FlashHack will be releasing African data. Sign up here <http://attending.io/events/flashhacks-with-code-for-africa>.* If you're not in Berlin but would still like to help, you can help the effort by doing one of the following: - If you can code in Ruby and/or Python, join http://missions.opencorporates.com and sign up! Have a look at the datasets we have listed on the Campaign page! - If there is a dataset you think we should include in this, please put that down here. Sign up to a mission! Send a tweet pledge to say you have taken on a mission. Write the bot and submit on the platform. - Tweet your success with the #FlashHacks tag! Cheers, Sam P.s. More information on the #FlashHacks drive can be found on the Open Knowledge blog: http://blog.okfn.org/2014/07/10/opencorporates-invites-you-to-join-the-launch-of-flashhacks/ -- *Sam LeonSchool of Data Fellow | skype: samedleon | @Noel_Mas <https://twitter.com/noel_mas>The Open Knowledge Foundation <http://okfn.org/>Empowering through Open Knowledgehttp://okfn.org/ <http://okfn.org/> | @okfn <http://twitter.com/OKFN> | OKF on Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/OKFNetwork> | Blog <http://blog.okfn.org/> | Newsletter <http://okfn.org/about/newsletter>Have you bought your tickets <http://2014.okfestival.org/tickets/> to OKFestival yet? Join us in Berlin!*
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