Hackfest
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What happened
In the last session on Saturday, Julian Carver led the Barcamp through a process of suggesting projects, fusing online and off methods in quite a novel way. This resulted in a pile of suggestions that a random team of people (the ones on the end of the rows) grouped the post-its while Jonathan Hunt transcribed the Twitterfall stream to the wiki (see below). Far into the night, Mark Harris wrestled with the varied topics (okay, I stuck a pin in the paper) to try to isolate 4-5 ideas that a) seemed achievable and b) seemed popular.
First thing, at the Hackfest, the resulting six ideas were put up:
- Fix My Street
- Official Information Act registry
- API & Data feed
- Online Community
- Public Transport
- Dataset Collection
[but, although it's Tuesday, I think the weekend used up my quota of waking hours so I'll finish this tomorrow. Suffice it to say, people coded and ate and it was good, for the moment] ~mark
Project and Code pages
- Scavenger Data API, Scrapes NZ Govt Data to convert from http to api - http://github.com/opennewzealand/scavenger/tree/master
- What_Do_They_Know_NZ - NZ version - http://github.com/wombleton/whatdotheyknow/tree/master; git copy of mysociety/foi - http://github.com/kuahyeow/foi/tree/master
- Attempt to Geo Parse Digital NZ API Records by Placename Extraction - http://github.com/gordonbanderson/digitalnzgeoparser/tree/master
- ETC...
Comments
- A lot more focused, with suggested projects. This helps people (especially newbies) join a team easier.
- Free flowing food is good!
Ideas
- metadata scraper
- tools to help turn clumsy data into clean APIs
- kick off a geek outreach project
- tool for govt workers to list possible datasets for opening
- single site for public consultations
- govt press releases geo located -> regional news
- successful grant applications
- form to add govt datasources to open.org.nz
- user research plan to identify data & tools to help elderly
- aggregate grants and scholarships available across govt
- public transport mashups (which bus takes least time)
- OIA registry
- geo mashup of existing govt datasets
- iPhone app for ?
- package geo datasets into atlas
- realtime events from NZP to official @nzpolice; geotag (all) emergency services
- merging council datasets into normalised national data
- standardised comparable lists of community resources like venues, parking, childcare for events
- mash ups and aps using digitalnz api
- a system to collate tweets: specify timespan, hashtag etc. and list them
- build joannatmcleod a job
- who is my mp? (with contact details)
- public repo of govt data (original and reworked) - e.g. using subversion, bugzilla etc. "DataForge"
- something with stats, like crime or benefits or unemployment - people love visualisations - graphs and maps, mmmm
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