International Open Data Day 2014
Dublin City, together with lots of other cities all over the world, takes part in the International Open Data Day Hackathon 2014. - Be part of it. Register now.
Open Knowledge Foundation Ireland are partnering up with our friends in Code for All Ireland & Code for Dublin for this meetup which takes place as part of International Open Data Day 2014 and CodeAcross 2014.
It's a gathering of citizens in cities around the world to educate, write applications, liberate data, create visualizations, and publish analyses using open public data to show support for and encourage the adoption open data policies by the world's local, regional and national governments.
When: Saturday, February 22nd, 2014
Venue: Facebook HQ, Hanover Quay Dublin 2
Hashtag: #ODD14 + #codeacross | IRC: #OKFN + #codeforamerica | Hangout: TBD
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This Feb. 22nd OKF Ireland are organizing a book sprint to create an open source and free to use textbook for schools that will help kids get coding and computing. A skill we all know they’ll need now and to build the future. Anyone can take part, we need lots of good souls who want to collaborate and contribute to this awesome project!
In collaboration with Code for Ireland who have kindly organised the venue and will be making sure food & drinks encourage you to stay for the day! They will also continue work on their app projects if you want to jump on one of their teams.
We are also teaming up with Open Data Science Ireland (@ODSIrl) in order to hack on open data sets and create meaningful stories from data that can highlight the benefit of open data to the mainstream public, average Joe and public service. We are looking for both people who have problems and questions and people who can make sense of data to answer exactly those. Sign-up or contact either OKFirl or @ODSIrl
Booksprint is a rapid and dramatic innovation in getting resources developed by experts through an open and crowd-sourced process. The Open Knowledge Foundation has held two foundation Booksprint to create an Open Education Handbook to be distributed to educators interested in incorporating resources and influencing the way their education system sources learning materials. We look for teaching, learning, and research materials in any medium already in the public domain (open) and work together (crowd-sourcing) to collate the information into a usable format for the general public, or in this case, teachers and educators.
Need more inspiration? - http://booktype.okfn.org/
Here is some thoughts we had on one specific project for somebody, but of course anybody coming along is free to do their deed for Dublin & Ireland in what ever way they prefer. Ideas welcome!
How to Write an Open Textbook in a Weekend
With thanks to all of the volunteers who helped organise the event: Eugene Eichelberger, Denis Parfenov, Flora Fleischer, Ciaran Gilsenan and Dominic Byrne