Hi all, Another bulletin update of news at the OKFN! We have just taken the decision to make these updates *fortnightly *rather than weekly*, *so look out for the next one on February 6th!
*Events* * *Public Domain Day*, Paris, Thursday 26th January: http://journeedudomainepublic.fr/events/journee-du-domaine-public-2012/ * *Open Economics Hackathon*, Saturday 28th January, in London and online: http://www.meetup.com/OpenKnowledgeFoundation/London-GB/583892/ * #*OpenDataLDN* meet-up, Monday 30th January. 75 people already registered to attend. Lightening talks about Open Economics, Interactive Design, Transport and the Public Archives. Check out http://www.meetup.com/OpenKnowledgeFoundation/London-GB/472892/. * *Open Economics data party*, 'City Data', Wednesday 1st February. *Notices* * Applications for *Panton Fellowships* are now open! For scientists who promote open data. More details at http://pantonprinciples.org/panton-fellowships/. Spread the word! * Space for *one more lightening talk *at the #OpenDataLDN meet-up. Contact Kat if you're interested! * Final proof-read of the *Open Data Manual *- get involved by adding to the etherpad: http://okfnpad.org/opendatamanual-proofread. *Further Project Updates: Open Economics* * Velichka will be giving a Lightning Talk at the OpenDataLND meet-up about the Open Economics Working Group - a call for contributions, cooperation and participation from a new working group focused on working with open economic data and social science *OpenBiblio ** The OpenBiblio sprint last week was very productive. Lots of output code hacking for BibServicer, interaction with CKAN and Open Philosophy etc. * Check out Peter Murray-Rust's blog! http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2012/01/22/bibsoup-a-new-open-approach-to-managing-personal-and-group-bibliographies/ *Open Data Manual * * Logo selected for the new ODM, http://jwyg.okfn.org/2011/06/07/new-logo-for-open-data-manual/ * Get involved with editing version 1.0! See the etherpad: http://okfnpad.org/opendatamanual-proofread *OpenGLAM* * Exciting week for OpenGLAM in Berlin. * Meeting of the 'Arbeitsgroup kulturelles Erbe', to include the 'Staatliche Museen Berlin', which owns the collection of almost every big institute in Berlin (Pergamon, Neues, Altes enz..) * Meeting with Jan Engelman from Wikimedia DE * OpenSpending* * Working on implementing [Collections](http://wdmmg.okfnpad.org/collections). * Prototyping the Compar-o-tron [Mockup 1]( http://www.flickr.com/photos/okfn/4623584907/), [Mockup 2]( http://www.flickr.com/photos/okfn/4624190848/). * Continuing work on Embeddable widgets for Spending Stories. * Planning upcoming work in Feb/March * WorldBank/KODI ddj course *NASA and Space Apps challenge* * Some of us talked to them last week regarding an upcoming project. We may do something with them in relation to open data for space apps - watch this space for a call for different projects to get involved! Let me know if you have any news to include in the next bulletin, which will come out on *February 6th! *Have a great week! Laura -- Laura Newman Community Coordinator Open Knowledge Foundation http://okfn.org/ Skype: lauranewmanonskype
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