A quick update from the Swiss chapter is long overdue - I’m going to make full advantage of the fellowship of our Discourse forums. Let’s start with some good news about our association:
https://forum.opendata.ch/t/gellerettli-its-open-data-time-in-basel/694/2
We have a couple of ongoing campaigns, the traveling Data Café:
https://forum.opendata.ch/t/data-cafe-awareness-campaign/695/2
And the Swiss Prototype Fund, announced at the annual conference.
We’ve got quite a list of events we are supporting this fall! If you’d like to engage or partner with our community, the best way in the short term is to join a hackathon on a topic of interest. Note that the event’s date is in the title in square brackets, [day.month]:
https://forum.opendata.ch/t/4-5-9-open-farming-hackdays/687/2
https://forum.opendata.ch/t/23-10-dinacon-2020/675/3
https://forum.opendata.ch/t/13-14-11-smart-city-lab-lenzburg/697/2
https://forum.opendata.ch/t/27-28-11-shape-my-city/696/2
https://forum.opendata.ch/t/11-12-12-hack4socialgood/624/3
For this last event of the year in particular, I am very keen to reach out and include more of the Open Knowledge network. This is part of a research project which is naturally conducive to collaboration, and involves Swiss charity organizations with a global reach.
In addition to these events, the Federal Statistical Office of Switzerland, responsible for the Opendata.swiss portal that we closely support, is virtually hosting the United Nations in October. I would say this is an excellent excuse for us to run a parallel event with the Open Knowledge network, and would love to hear your thoughts. Some background, along with a few ideas we’ve brainstormed so far:
https://forum.opendata.ch/t/21-10-un-world-data-forum-2020/617/4