Meetup #12
Open Data Ireland was set up with the purpose of helping citizens access high value, meaningful machine readable data sets generated by the Irish Government. This community meetup will bring together people who are passionate about sharing, learning, using and progressing Open Data in Ireland.
If you work in public or private sectors, if you're a developer, designer, journalist, academic, policy maker, creative thinker, civil servant, entrepreneur or just an Average Joe, you're more than welcome to join us, contribute and participate.
If you're a teacher and interested in working on open source content or helping out as a subject matter expert we welcome you to come along and join us on January 23rd.
The initiative is supported by the Open Knowledge Foundation - Ireland and Department of Computer Science, UCC
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At this meet-up we are going to discuss and and begin practical work on collaborative Open Education projects for Ireland.
- Joonas Mäkinen, who organised Booksprint in Helsinki and Marieke Guy, who organised Booksprints in London and Berlin, will join us via G+. Post and keep track of your questions for Joonas and Marieke
Meetup Details
- Guest speakers: Denis Parfenov (OKF Ireland), Joonas Mäkinen -science and culture enthusiast and human rights activist, Marieke Guy (OKF Open Education) and Darius Whelan (Creative Commons Ireland)
- Bring: Laptop
- When: 23 / 01 / 2014 @ 18:30
- Where: Room 1.07, Western Gateway Building, UCC, Cork, Ireland
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Who: A number of notable representatives will be joining the discussion including: OKF Ambassador for Ireland and OKF OpenGLAM Ambasador for Ireland
- Twitter hashtag: #okfIRL
This meetup will lead to a hands-on 'booksprint' on the International Open Day Hackathon, Saturday, 22nd February, where we aim to print a book!
"We are encouraging rigorous Computer Science courses. Although individual technologies change day by day, they are underpinned by foundational concepts and principles that have endured for decades. Long after today, pupils leave school and enter the workplace, long after the technologies they used at school are obsolete, the principles learnt in Computer Science will still hold true." -Michael Gove, gov.uk, Department for Education, 11 January 2012
Topics include:
Open Educational Resources, teaching, learning, and research materials in any medium that reside in the public domain.
Booksprint: Guidebook for Computing (Primary) and Computer Science (Secondary) Handbook
Continuing Booksprint on the Open Knowledge Foundation Open Education Handbook
Overview of a group of Finnish teachers authored an open maths textbook in a weekend
Updating opendata.ie and Ireland's Open Data repository CKAN (Data.OpenData.ie)
Junior Cert reform and opportunities for Booksprint deliverables can get NCCA approval and reform Ireland's secondary education system.
This Open Data Ireland meeting will offer the opportunity to break into work groups and offer some time to collaborate with others. Bringing your laptop or tablet is encouraged as we hope that each group can gain practical experience building and encouraging online collaboration. The Open Knowledge Foundation has held two foundation Booksprint to start an Open Education Handbook to be distributed to educators interested in incorporating resources and influencing the way their education system sources learning materials. Think, an 'Open Data' module in a box for 2nd level students; truly an important lesson in civics. This Booksprint is a great place to start contributing and networking with others who seek to accelerate technology in the classroom.
Anyone can join! If you're new to Open Data Ireland, you're welcome to just turn up and we'll introduce you to everyone. With or without a laptop we'll introduce you to the practical information to get started straight away. Together we build the community and resources needed to assist students, teachers, and national curricula. Think primary level maths books accessible by anyone, free of charge.
Open Data Ireland with the support of Open Knowledge Foundation seeks to build projects and regional hubs, sustained by volunteers, which will assist with facilitating community involvement with the Open Data movement worldwide; as well as coordinate and participate in the civil society aspect of Open Government. Through our regular meetups, hackathons and community-led projects, we work to create a sustainable infrastructure within Ireland to promote the values of openness, sector by sector.
A Booksprint is rapid and dramatic innovation to getting resources developed by experts in an open and crowd-sourced process.
‘Booksprint’ is a rapid and dramatic innovation in getting resources developed by experts through an open and crowd-sourced process. A group of Finnish mathematics researchers, teachers and students wrote an upper secondary mathematics textbook in a booksprint. The event started on Friday 28th September at 9:00AM and the book was ready on Sunday evening. This book was written in Finnish. The result is published with open CC-BY-license. As far as we know, this is the first time a course textbook was written in three-day hackathon. The hackathon approach has been used earlier mainly for coding open source software and writing manuals for open source software. If you want to follow the progress, visit the repository at Github or the Facebook page.
This event is kindly hosted by Department of Computer Science at UCC. Many thanks to Gavin Russell for his time and support.
With thanks to all of the volunteers who helped organise the event: Flora Fleischer, Eugene Eugene, Shawn Day and Denis Parfenov.