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labs-hangouts @OKFNLabs Hangout #15 - Thursday, April 21, 2016

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@OKFNLabs Hangout #14 - Thursday, March 17, 2016
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  • New communication channels
  • https://gitter.im/openspending/chat
  • https://gitter.im/opentrials/chat
  • https://gitter.im/frictionlessdata/chat
  • https://gitter.im/okfn/chat
  • Frictionless Data Transport in Python
  • http://okfnlabs.org/blog/2016/03/11/frictionless-data-transport-in-python.html
  • Newsletter submissions!
  • http://okfnlabs.org/blog/2016/02/18/submissions.html
  • Latest OpenSpending developments 
  • Other Events?



    • @OKFNLabs Hangout #13 - Thursday, February 25, 2016

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    AOB:
        https://github.com/okfn/ideas/issues/41 
        
        (From tfmorris) Example of Google search which finds an image-only PDF:
            https://www.google.com/search?q=mupak+site%3Abitsavers.org
        also cached version contains first 20 pages of text OCR'd from images in doc:
            http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:rsAU3aq64YQJ:www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp15/DEC-15-GXZC-D_MUMPS_Apr72.pdf+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
            (not sure who authored the line below - Etherpad seems to be, shall we say "lacking", in the provenance department)
            ContentMine (whom I am associated with) are involved in software development http://contentmine.org/software/ 

    Present











    @OKFNLabs Hangout #12 - Monday, November 23, 2015

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    Participants
    Please add your name and email/twitter/website here



    Notes

    * Daniel indicated he was interested
    * David indicated he was interested in contributing

    Types of activities:
        
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    @OKFNLabs Hangout #11 - Thursday, July 16, 2015


    @OKFNLabs Hangout #10 - Thursday, May 14, 2015

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    Part 1: 30m - projects and updates show and tell - add your latest project news here!


    Part 2: 20m - current issues and operational updates from Open Knowledge Labs


    Participants
    Please add your name and email/twitter/website here


    Notes:
        
    Anders Pedersen, NRGI (Natural Resource Governance Institute)

    http://www.resourcegovernance.org/draft-eiti-data-visualization

    - Great to present as work at NRGI connects with OpenSpending and Data Packages
    - Extractives data space - income and spending re mining, oil, gas etc
    - Increasing amount of data but not very standardized - hard to compare and understand
    - What do we need to make meaningful stories at the national level - looking at Data Packages as a lightweight solution here to help out
     
     Potential datasets to develop as data packages: 
     - World Bank governance indicators straight in so they could be compared to e.g. extractives situation
     - Also commodity prices [ed: cf https://github.com/datasets/registry/issues/5 - commodity prices]
     - Blog series on falling commodity prices: http://www.resourcegovernance.org/issues/commodity-prices
     

    Paul Walsh

    - OpenSpending - running since 2010
    - Discussion about re-architecting the technical platform, formalise a work plan for next year focused on a MVP
    - Looking for stories, use cases, especially things you cannot do today with OpenSpending (see forum link above)
    - Seeing exponential growth, 
    - Standardising on the Open Spending Data Package and improving ETL & API are goals in the new architecture
    - Maximize the speed with which users go from uploading data to a working visualisation is a priority
    - Comparative analysis between datasets/countries is the holy grail, relies on quality of data, see https://discuss.okfn.org/t/what-is-openspending/265

    180 datasets in Japan, several dozen in DE, ... 

    Sneak previews SpenDB:

    What was the point about Texas? (Steve Adcock) Steve: Textus, we'll table it until next time.. 

    Oleg

    - Running an Open Research Data hackathon in Switzerland on June 5 & 6 http://make.opendata.ch
    - Part of this will be a data literacy / data quality workshop with a focus on science data, follow @sodacamper for info
    - Any ideas of sciency datasets, Labs tools we should try use  I can provide some of these from the oil and gas industry. One example (3D viz and data analysis): www.opendtect.org 

    Matthew

    - Working on http://givemetext.okfnlabs.org/

    Roadmap

    - Vision of Labs is not just about a set of projects: 
    https://docs.google.com/a/okfn.org/document/d/1vZQaEQ6Rm8eFk54XBN9KhBGQE1KomesFJg3kRalO4AU/edit?usp=drive_web
    - Database, wrangling tooling, ability to collaborate around data
    - A common outlook even if we are working on individual projects
    - We are a loose collective, people can come and work on what they like
    - "Not the architecture of a house - more like the layout of a park"
    - Not producing an ecosystem, but helping to shape one - an artist collective, with shared principles

    Community charter

    - How to get the community to participate more (newsletter, local leads, ...)
    - People should feel bold about sharing with the list
    - Tools to help with their own data wrangling projects
    - What would be really exciting and fun for people getting involved with us?
    - Interface with the OpenDataHandbook.org
    - Set up mentorships between members, and with wider community
    A couple of ways we might approach this (I can't figure out how to verbally connect on the hangout):


    @OKFNLabs Hangout #9 - Thursday, April 16, 2015


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    For next time

    Next Hangout: mid May - thanks for joining & see you!!


































    Hangout #8 - Thursday 15th May 2014


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    Hangout #7 - Thursday 20th March 2014

    Hangout URL: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/7ecpjeapbheesbnvvgd4uj9dnc?authuser=1&hl=en-GB

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    Participants

    Notes on presentations:
    * Tom Morris: OED
    * Tom Levine (Multiple Tom's)
    * Mark: IATI datastore
    Open discussion:



    Hangout #5 - Thursday 23rd January 2014


    Hangout URL: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/7acpj82g77bhgt70u1ttpcb220?hl=en-GB

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    Notes on "part 2" (general discussion):



    Random links:
        
    https://github.com/okfn/ideas/issues/50
    http://timemapper.okfnlabs.org/okfn/open-knowledge-foundation-history































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    Hangout #4 - 17th December 2013

    Hangout URL: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/72cpi7e0sgova91dat5gg9paqg?hl=en-GB

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    ## Notes

    Scribe: Andy, Rufus, Neil ...

    * Daniel on Enki
    * Rufus: Data Package spec & Data Explorer - http://explorer.okfnlabs.org/
    * Steve: project management proposal


    ### Part II - Labs Coordination

    * finding a time after Xmas for people to get together and hack on the projects page

    - Projects page: https://github.com/okfn/okfn.github.com/issues/46
    - Join in process: https://github.com/okfn/okfn.github.com/issues/68

    Steve: Search by keyword and category needed (ref back to need for project management data model). 
    A short list at the beginning of all categories for projects would be useful as well as the prominent search bar. This would look good as a bubble map of projects and that should work well with the project data model approach.
    A clear indication of coding methods and software is needed.
    Category: Functionality is needed i.e. what sort of things do the labs tools allow me to do (as a hacker)
    Graphic workflows (maps of processes) with click-throughs to the oklab tool(s) suited to that problem (as per Kati's suggestion)
    (per Kati) having a tracked history of your path of search is very useful and I've seen excellent ideas of simple highlighting of a site tree for this purpose.
    Excellent data model questions!! As far as display, we can always just pull what we want from the data model. Basic project attributes (i.e. attributes of category "projects"): Data originated, originator, Life cycles attributes (idea, startup, ..., abandoned, on hold, etc.), volunteers attached to project, etc. 
    Step one in this process would normally be to ask each client group what their questions were and then incorporate those into the data model. We have more knowledge of this though and should be able to build the straw model very quickly. I'll create a spreadsheet with a column for each of the project management data attributes and post it on the Google Drive this week.




    Easy:
        * Make it clear how to add a project

    Kati: I want to learn

    Example: http://devtracker.dfid.gov.uk/countries/BD/projects/ (project layout)















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    Hangout #3 - 19th November 2013


    Hangout url: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/72cpilc1shmpsr2q3u8lus8ikc?hl=en-GB

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    ## Scribing

    ### general discussion

    * Rufus throws out an idea for improving the site:
    * Oleg: summary of projects conversation
    * Rufus adds:
    * Tod suggests: categories
    * Rufus: are there any simple wins, just looking at the projects page?
    * Oleg asks: how many are working on Labs projects professionally?
    * Oleg: where OKF Labs can shine, even at the local level
    * Mark: major action items
    * Rufus and Oleg on how maker night applies to local chapters
    * Oleg asks: is Labs a working group?
    * Rufus: is anyone up for taking on making the Projects page better?
    * Tom:


    ### individual presentations / show-n-tell

    * Andy on Data Pipes
    * Daniel: Crowdcrafting
    * Oleg: OA / data button
    * Vítor: QueremosSaber
    * Mark: Philippines project
    * Alex: Global Economic Map
    * Rufus:
        - data.okfn.org: the idea of "frictionless data", making it as simple as possible to get the data you want into the tool of your choice (see the about page)
        - a small amount of high-quality data will be hosted here