Notes from board meeting: Intro discussion topic:<– Nick, Fiona, Flanders and questions from the board via Etherpad ODI Discussion: “activists vs economists”? Economic value of Open Data report? http://www.omidyar.com/insights/open-business Economists: efficiency gains, civil info, etc. Activists: petition signing, transparency of wealthy coporations, etc. 6:03pm start welcome to August meeting 5 items of agenda – timed […]
OKF (Australia) Board Meeting
“A Season for Open Knowledge Advocacy in Australia” was kicked off last night with the first of five board meetings for the newly minted members of this years Open Knowledge Foundation Board. The next Board Meeting will be on June 25th at 6pm (Melbourne Time), the public broadcast and a public forum chat window will […]
Can we hack health? Researchers and hackers come together to find out at #HealthHack
Watching GovHack grow to over 800 developers this past year was amazing (and it will be even more amazing this year!), however watching an event when it is just the sparkle in the eye of a small community is even more exciting. Exciting because of the potential it has, the potential to change things in […]
The Buddy System
The Buddy System[1] It is important to recognise that Ambassadors come and go, there are far too many wonderful causes and reasons in the world to assume that you will only dedicate your volunteer hours to one organisation forever. Naturally, we want you all to stay as long as you like, but for the most […]
OKFN Board Meeting Sunday 1st of September 2013
Watch the full board meeting as video recorded here: http://youtu.be/wPX9z1TGlH8 Attending: Dr. Rufus Pollock, Pia Waugh, David F. Flanders, Dr Markus Buchhorn, Paul Szymkowiak, Clare Paine, Anna Gerber, Matt Didcoe, John Baxter, Fiona Tweedie, Craig Butt, Mat Todd, Georgina Taylor, Steve Bennett, Maia SSauren, Silvana Fumega, Chris Sakkas, Anna Daniel, Alex Sadleir, Richard Tubb, Steven De […]
Announcing the Open Knowledge Public Lecture Tour featuring Dr. Rufus Pollock founder of the Open Knowledge Foundation
Your local OKFN Ambassadors and working group are very pleased to invite you to attend, one of five public lectures that Dr. Rufus Pollock** will be giving during a short lecture tour throughout Australia about open knowledge and open data. We’ve named this tour “The Open Knowledge Down Under” tour and encourage you to talk […]
Event GovHack – Beautiful Data
As most of you will have heard, the Australian Government’s annual ‘open data’ event (GovHack) is taking place across the country this year with prizes from $500 to $5000 on offer! GovHack this year has recruited 8 cities including our fair city of Melbourne! Naturally, many in the Open Knowledge community are already involved around […]
Data.Hack.Map Art Gallery (& ‘Data Carpentry’ Course)
“After doing this ‘Data Carpentry’ course module, I went back to use Google Maps for getting some directions, and I realized how much more beautiful a map can be; being taught TileMill gave me a whole new easy to use set of tools for building beautiful maps from open data.” (Participant at #DataHack) The catalyst […]
The Final Frontiers: an A-Z of ‘open knowledge’
Open Knowledge is naturally a very difficult thing to define, especially since it is defined by a community of people whose view of Open Knowledge is naturally kaleidoscopic. When people ask me what the OKFN community in Australia does, I often refer to the mission of those aboard the Stark Trek Enterprise (being a geek […]
The Data Newsroom
4th Feb 2011. Melbourne, The Age HQ – from ‘The Data Newsroom’ event. For the first time, The Age Newspaper opened their doors to hackers** asking them to dig into three datasets not previously released to the public: (1) Political party funding data, which lists what companies donate money to which political parties. (2) A […]