Yes sorry Meera thanks for clarifying.
Nisha On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Meera <meerak...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nisha, > > Just a clarification. > We would like to support this as Oorvani Foundation - our non-profit that > supports independent and deep diving journalism at city/state/national > levels (data journalism is part of our mandate). The foundation provides > support for the content that is published in Citizen Matters and India > Together. > > I will have some updates on the kind of data we can look at at the > hackathon, in a week. > > Regds, Meera > > > > On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Nisha Thompson > <nisha.thomp...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> 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 15 >> th 16th? >> >> >> >> 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 >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Nisha Thompson >> Mobile: 962-061-2245 >> >> -- >> For more details about this list >> http://datameet.org/discussions/ >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "datameet" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- > For more details about this list > http://datameet.org/discussions/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "datameet" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Nisha Thompson Mobile: 962-061-2245 -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. 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