Hey, folks. Open San Diego is doing a hackfest next weekend.
I'd love to see some SD Ruby peeps there. Looks like a cool dataset to play around with. Let's show them the power of Ruby! Cheers, Patrick Begin forwarded message: > From: Nathan Gibbs <[email protected]> > Date: January 26, 2011 6:33:16 pm PST > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Hacks-Hackers-Sand-Diego] Open Data Project at Drumbeat San Diego, > Feb. 5 > > Greetings Hacks/Hackers! > > I wanted to let everyone know about the Drumbeat San Diego event on Saturday, > Feb. 5. There's an open data session that looks particularly relevant to the > group: > > The Open Data Project combines the efforts of the open data community and > journalism community in San Diego. This project will allow you to see raw > data sets can be transformed into a story that grips people’s attention and > provides new insight about our local community. The space will provide a > forum for discussion of how to gain access to important data and the methods > used to translate raw data into data-driven journalism and effective advocacy. > > Lorie Hearn of the Watchdog Institute and Jed Sundwall of Open San Diego will > also be working with participants to examine data of 911 phone calls compiled > over a month period. Diverse participation in examining the stories within > the data will help find effective narratives for journalism stories. > Journalism plays a critical role in examining the importance of the data > findings and building advocacy around the findings. > > In anticipation of the event, you can download the data and play with it. > Click here to download a .zip including the 911 data in a .csv and a text > file describing what the data mean. > > While registration is free, space is limited to about 100 participants. > > Register today: http://www.newmediari... > Where: Queen Bees Art & Cultural Center, 3925 Ohio St., San Diego, CA 92104 > When: Saturday February 5, 2011 12:30-6:30 p.m. > -- Drumbeat San Diego is a unique, and groundbreaking event for San Diego. > Drumbeat will be a participatory, hands-on event that will engage community > organizers, artists, filmmakers, citizen journalists, musicians and other > community members who are interested in networking, building with information > tools, and engaging diverse communities in San Diego and the larger world. > > > > > -- > This message was sent by Nathan Gibbs ([email protected]) from Hacks/Hackers > San Diego. > To learn more about Nathan Gibbs, visit his/her member profile > > > Meetup, PO Box 4668 #37895 New York, New York 10163-4668 | [email protected] -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
