Open Knowledge England - Introductions

[rufuspollock]

A big welcome to all of you and great to hear you are interested.

@all: I have just created this topic suggesting 3 major areas where people can get involved with Open Knowledge England:

Proposal for Structuring Open Knowledge England Activities

I want to suggest that we organize Open Knowledge England activities under a few defined headings and use these to structure our work, the group and the involvement of new members. Policy and Advocacy This group would focus on: National and local government information policy including open data Carry out research (e.g. National and Local Open Data Index) Prepare policy papers and perform high-level advocacy Events and Outreach This group would focus on: Organizing meetups and other even…

Please take a look and comment a) on what you think b) where you might like to contribute.

@nickmhalliday - great to have you on here! If you are interested, would be wonderful to have joj join the mini organizing group for London Meetups. Also take a look at the “Policy and Advocacy” group in the structuring proposal.

@MathPascal Mathilde great to meet you and delighted you got to come on Wednesday. Please take a look at the 3 areas proposal to get a sense of where you could contribute.

@mariacrosas great to hear from you and that you are based in Birmingham. Fantastic that you are looking to develop your data journalism skills. I assume you know about the Open Knowledge project http://schoolofdata.org/? If you were looking to contribute there are definite areas where data “storytelling” would be really useful.

@Yeba: great to meet you - and interestingly your about you was an “image” It would be fantastic to have yoru contribution, perhaps in helping promote and organize the next meetup. Also, have a look at the [areas proposal] and see what you think.