Hi all, Greetings from snowy Cambridge! Here is the latest bulletin of news and events at the Open Knowledge Foundation.
*Events * *Open Economics Working Group, City DataParty, Wednesday 8th February. Full details here <http://openeconomics.net/2012/02/03/city-dataparty-3/> * The second *#OpenDataCBG *meet-up will take place in the Panton Arms in Cambridge on 27th February. Visit the meet-up page<http://www.meetup.com/OpenKnowledgeFoundation/Cambridge/593762/>for more information! <http://www.doodle.com/d3yprq77zr64zd7w> *Notices * *We have been nominated to take part in the 'Digital Communities' category of the Prix Ars Electronica<http://new.aec.at/prix/en/kategorien/digital-communities/>. The deadline is March 2nd. Primavera is interested in applying on behalf of the OKFN, and is seeking collaborators. Get in touch if you'd like to be involved! * Applications for the *Panton Fellowships<http://pantonprinciples.org/panton-fellowships/> *are open until February 24th. Apply now! * The *Open Development Working Group* has been reborn. The group will be working on an ambitious project to create a European Aid Data Network. See below for more details, or sign-up to the mailing list. <http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-development> * Interested in seeing *OpenSpending* in your own language? Contact lucy.chambers [at] okfn.org and sign up for an account on www.transifex.net. Any translations completed by 10th Feb will be featured in the next release! *Further Updates: OKFest *Details of OKFest 2012 will be announced tomorrow - watch this space! * #OpenDataLDN *The meet-up was a huge success last week, with 60+ participants and lots of new ideas and interesting projects shared. You can follow the blog post and twitter trail for the event here<http://blog.okfn.org/2012/02/01/wikimedia-and-new-collaborations-at-third-opendataldn-meetup-in-london/> . *Open Development working group* A proposal was submitted last year to create a European Aid Data Network to the EuropeAid budget line of the European Commission, led by AidInfo in the UK, with Partos (NL), FORS (CZ), ACEP (PT), IGO (PL) and the Open Knowledge Foundation (UK). The partners will hear in March if they have been invited to make a full application for funding, but in the meantime have agreed to start work on some networking actions in any case. This includes: - Agreeing on the open-development OKFN list as the main co-ordinating point; - Getting web presence set up for the open-development list to link to upcoming events - Carrying out a short mapping survey of open-development list members and others to identify existing skills and strengths, and needs, around open-development information, events and resources. Work of the network has two foci: a) coordination and networking within the open aid data community and b) outreach to NGOs to raise awareness and offer training on open aid data The group is also looking to identify events coming up in Europe this year to link *open development *conversations too. Thinking about possible seminars to explore what vision of open development is. *Open Economics Working Group * * Follow-up from the Economics Hackday can be found here<http://openeconomics.net/2012/02/01/open-economics-hackday/>, with the updated dataset: http://thedatahub.org/dataset/yourtopia-italy<http://thedatahub.org/dataset/yourtopia-italy> * Vote on the date for the Energy and Climate Hackday here<http://www.doodle.com/d3yprq77zr64zd7w> *Public Domain Works* * The Public Domain Day in Paris* *was a great success. Planning on organizing a second round OpenGLAM event. * Open Metadata Handbook: preliminary draft is complete, soliciting relevant people to contribute. * Public Domain Calculators: new calculators coming + get the publicdomainworks.net website up and running with Etienne *Open Linguistics* We drafted a Linguistic Linked Open Data (LLOD) cloud diagram: http://linguistics.okfn.org/resources/llod/ and are working on realizing and improving it. The copyright stays with the group and it is cc-by *Open Biblio* * See http://openbiblio.net/ for blogs from Mark, Adrian Pohl and Naomi, and http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/ for Peter Murray-Rust's blog * Sprint / meet-up to be held next month in Edinburgh, Hackathon in June in London or nearby * Discussion on encouraging community, using BibKN as way of directing people to the different tools and datasets * Lots of work on BibServer and BibSoup by Etienne, Mark M and PMR, BibSoup to be launched next week * Presenting to a number of Research Councils soon * Interacts with Open Science - other projects should get in touch if they think the technology to get and parse data might be useful (and how could it not?) *Open Data Manual* * Text of version 1.0 is ready to freeze. After this there will be a big translation push, so linguists get ready! *School of Data* * Coming soon, keep your eyes on the OKFN blog for more details. Thanks guys, keep your news and updates coming! The next bulletin will come round on February 20th. Kind regards, Laura * * -- Laura Newman Community Coordinator Open Knowledge Foundation http://okfn.org/ Skype: lauranewmanonskype
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