Hi All, If anyone's interested, we can organise a hack-a-day event for this?
Let me know and I'll get us a room with wifi. There's not much time left, so it will have to be within next couple of weeks, even less so if it's a Sat (and 28th May is out as that's Code Retreat). Cheers, /// Vicky ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ http://irishbornchinese.com ~~ ~~ http://www.python.ie ~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Alan Kennedy <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm emailing to bring your attention to an interesting competition > relating to the use of Open Government Data in Europe. > > The "Pan European Open Data Challenge" is awarding €20,000 in prizes > for ideas, applications, or visualisations which make use of open > government data in Europe, and also prizes for new data sets. The > competition is open until June 5th 2011. > > http://opendatachallenge.org/ > > The competition is being run by the Open Knowledge Foundation > > http://okfn.org/ > > Microsoft are supporting this effort by providing access to public > data sets in multiple formats > > http://dev.govdata.eu/DataCatalog/DataSetList > > Microsoft say that their open data platform > > """ > will make it very easy for a developer to reuse the data within an > application whatever is the language or the development tool used. At > the moment the platform has 40 datasets, but we are going to upload > more from the CKAN catalogs in different countries. > > Moreover if anyone has specific datasets they would like to see > uploaded on the platform for reuse, they can be easily added. > """ > > Submit new data requests here > > http://dev.govdata.eu/Request/Index/ > > All the best, > > Alan. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Python Ireland" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/pythonireland?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Ireland" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pythonireland?hl=en.
