OPEN DATA DAY 2015 is coming and a coalition of partners have come together to provide a limited number of micro-grants designed to support communities organise ODD activities all over the world !
All the details from the Open Knowledge Foundation: http://bit.ly/opendatadaymicrogrants More ... Here are the emerging events: http://wiki.opendataday.org/Main_Page If you want to get involved, join their online group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/open-data-day Also note Code Across events as well: http://www.codeforamerica.org/events/codeacross-2015/ You need to check with wiki, map and the Code Across list to see what is emerging this is as OKF puts it "As a volunteer led event, with no organisation behind it, Open Data Day provides the perfect opportunity for communities all over the world to convene, celebrate and promote open data in ways most relevant to their fellow citizens." See the 2014 sheet for events from last year too - starting one in your city with other who did this before is worth at try: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ruewy74XVCCyp89YzqsyeoKTjLmyzNHo0hrjr3djiyQ/edit?usp=sharing Lastly, as part of the Coalition supporting this effort with some in-kind promotion, note our tips on digital outreach for unconferences and hackathons. If set up an event, these very tactical tips will help to get people in the room! http://e-democracy.org/digout Steven Clift - Executive Director, E-Democracy * Support E-Democracy. Pledge drive to raise $10,000 US: http://e-democracy.org/donate?ft - Only $890 to 2015 Goal -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.