We’re excited to share with you a few upcoming Community Sessions from the School of Data, CKAN, Open Knowledge Brazil, and Open Access. As we mentioned earlier this week, we aim to connect you to each other. Join us for the following events!
What is a Community Session: These online events can be in a number of forms: a scheduled IRC chat, a community google hangout, a technical sprint or hackpad editathon. The goal is to connect the community to learn and share their stories and skills.
We held our first Community Session yesterday. (see our Wiki Community Session notes) The remaining April events will be online via G+. These sessions will be a public Hangout to Air. The video will be available on the Open Knowledge Youtube Channel after the event. Questions are welcome via Twitter and G+.
All these sessions are Wednesdays at 10:30 – 11:30 am ET/ 14:30 – 15:30 UTC.
Mapping with Ketty and Ali: a School of Data Skillshare (April 9, 2014)
Making a basic map from spreadsheet data: We’ll explore tools like QGIS (a free and Open-source Geographic Information System), Tilemill (a tool to design beautiful interactive web maps) Our guest trainers are Ketty Adoch and Ali Rebaie.
To join the Mapping with Ketty and Ali Session on April 9, 2014
Q & A with Open Knowledge Brazil Chapter featuring Everton(Tom) Zanella Alvarenga (April 16, 2014)
Around the world, local groups, Chapters, projects, working groups and individuals connect to Open Knowledge. We want to share your stories.
In this Community Session, we will feature Everton (Tom) Zanella Alvarenga, Executive Director.
Open Knowledge Foundation Brazil is a newish Chapter. Tom will share his experiences growing a chapter and community in Brazil. We aim to connect you to community members around the world. We will also open up the conversation to all things Community. Share your best practices
Join us on April 16, 2014 via G+
Take a CKAN Tour (April 23, 2014)
This week we will give an overview and tour of CKAN – the leading open source open data platform used by the national governments of the US, UK, Brazil, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Austria and many more. This session will cover why data portals are useful, what they provide and showcase examples and best practices from CKAN’s varied user base! Our special guest is Irina Bolychevsky, Services Director (Open Knowledge Foundation).
Learn and share your CKAN stories on April 23, 2014
(Note: We will share more details about the April 30th Open Access session soon!)
