Last week we had a Hangout to go over the plan for the ODC 14.
I want to say we have gotten a confirmation that we can use Google's
Offices this year.
We need to confirm the dates.
March 15th 16th or 22nd or 23rd.
Do you all think we will have enough time to get the camp done by the 15th16
th?
We need to raise money for travel funds, tshirts, stickers, and some other
needs?
About 2 lakhs should cover the total cost for the camp.
Should we charge for the camp?
Last year we were able to cover the costs for food and some essentials by
charging. We can also do the same this year. However I feel we shouldn't
charge anything more than 500 rupees.
2 days
1st Day Talks around theme:
The Theme this camp is Elections:
The tracks proposed are the following
Election Data Access and Uses
Election Data: improving data, privacy concerns,
Accountability Data: What information do we need regarding MPs and MLAs and
how we get it, how we use it?
Data and Election Coverage: How do journalists use data to cover elections?
I will do a follow up email doing deep dives for the tracks, who we should
invite and how to structure them.
2nd Day Free Space, Hackathon?, Workshops?
If we do a hackathon it needs to be very structured with real outputs that
have anchors.
Citizen Matters is interested advising
Some potential projects:
Crowd sourcing creation of shapefiles
Boundary matching - from districts to MP boundaries - problem solving
Also I would like day 1 to generate ideas and projects for Day 2. So that
there is non curated time so people can come together and brainstorm and
come up with projects for Day 2 and beyond.
Build up to ODC
Several Events can be done and have been suggested
- Free the PDF hackathon - a lot of election data is in PDFs
- GEOBLR meeting on shapefile issues
The full notes from the meeting are below. Some additional questions:
How many people want hardcore workshop?
How many workshops? What subjects?
Specific people/institution and orgs that we need to Invite?
Specific ideas, subjects that we need to handle?
Volunteers for printing, reaching out, final day, PR, media etc?
Volunteers for the website contribution?
IF you want to Volunteer for ODC14 let me know I will be putting everyone
who is interested on the Volunteer group so we don't spam the list with the
logistics.
Let me know what I missed!
Nisha
Notes from Meeting:
Invite list
Political parties?
Election commission
Milan Vaishnav - Carnegie Melon
ADR
Janaagraha
ISI
Data.gov.in
departments of Policital Science
Universities and Colleges
iVoteForBetterIndia
Citizen Matters
Smart Vote
Data Needed
ECI - PDF expenditure information -
http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/mis-Political_Parties/Election_Expenses/sek2008/INC.pdf
census data
NSSO
Bof's
DataMeet Group Status
Sponsors
1) Election Commision of India
2) Data.gov.in
3) Planning Comission
4) Google
5) Facebook
6) Microsoft
7) State Govt of Karnataka
8) Gramener
9) http://www.lokniti.org/index.htm
10) myneta - sms "myneta <pincode>" gives me data on both MP and MLA
for my constituency
11) Association For Democratic Reforms
Potential Example:
http://opennepal.net/blog/opendata-mini-hackathon-election-achieved-its-mini-objectives
http://www.hindustantimes.com/specials/coverage/myindia-myvote/chunk-ht-ui-myindiamyvote-countdownto2014/ec-aborts-tie-up-with-google-over-security-worries/sp-article10-1170987.aspx
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