October 2013 Hackathon Announcement

Posted on by Eugene Eichelberger

Announcements

  • The next ‘Open Data Ireland’ meetup will take place in TCube on Thursday, 24th October 2013. Doors open at 6:30.
  • We now have a flickr site capturing the event in pics and if you’d like to follow-up with what has been happening on Twitter while we were hard at work, you can do that, too, at storify.
  • We are thankful TCube for hospitality.
  • We thank everyone who participated in CKAN Hackathon ‘in the room’ or online. We all have co-founded Open Knowledge Foundation Local Initiative in Ireland on September 28th, 2013.

Tentative agenda

  1. deploying a Central Open Data Portal that provides the people of Ireland with a single access point to the information collected by their government
  2. auditing and validating existing public domain data for inclusion in such portal
  3. preparing the OKFN Ireland recommendation for inclusion into the 1st Irish OGP National Action Plan and,
  4. creating an educational hub introducing  about the power of open data