HealthHack: a datahack for medical research problems
HealthHack is a weekend datahack working on problems that medical researchers face.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Rufus Pollock a hit in Sunny Brisbane
In an overnight trip to sunny Brisbane Rufus Pollock delivered an interactive session attended by 30 people at QUT on Friday night and on Saturday morning gave the plenary talk for the Queensland Government Open Data Mixer day to about 150 people (and livestreamed to 3 cities where concurrent Open Data Mixer days were being […]
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Rufus Pollock takes Sydney by storm!
Brilliant 2 days of talking about Open Knowledge and getting things launched in Sydney! Rufus has been on fire! Monday night’s public lecture was brilliant – the most engaging public forum I’ve personally ever heard. We were honoured to be inundated with many thoughtful questions from people who are clearly very intelligent and care a […]
Read moreAnnouncing 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 […]
Read moreEvent 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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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