Upstate Open Data Day
Open Data Day is a gathering of citizens in cities around the world to write applications, liberate data, create visualizations and publish analyses using open public data to show support for and encourage the adoption open data policies by the world's local, regional and national governments.
We're bringing this to Greenville, SC (hosted at OpenWorks) to explore open data and how local developers can contribute tools, tech, and talks on the topic.
We'll be using Cloudant and Apache CouchDB to manage, MapReduce, and munge open data sources including Comics.org, MusicBrainz.org, OpenLibrary.org, DBPedia (data from Wikipedia), and anything else we can find.
If you know of open civic data in the state or region, please bring those brains so we can hack for some civic good as well!
Sponsors:
Schedule:
10 am - kick off, welcome, coffee
noon - lunch - tacos...maybe?
1-5 pm - hack!!!
5:15-ish - presentations on what happened, post-ops
6 pm - after party downtown somewhere
#greenville channel on irc.freenode.net
Looking to connect with other Greenville, South Carolina area developers? Checkout the #greenville channel on irc.freenode.net.
You can pop in and say "hi" via WebChat (also provided by Freenode). If you want to hang out for a while, we highly recommend IRCCloud.com.
Check us out on InnoVenture.com
Stay up to date with our schedule and plans at the OpenUpstate.org Idea Page on InnoVenture.com. If you'd like to be a part of what we're doing, follow us there and Introduce OpenUpstate.org to others you know who'd enjoy being apart of this idea.
About OpenUpstate
OpenUpstate exists to foster collaboration in the tech community of Upstate South Carolina.
We are a loosely federated group of software and web developers in Upstate South Carolina who meet semi-regularly to discuss and hack on problems. Typically, we solve problems using open standards, open source, and open APIs.
For questions ping @bigbluehat or @openupstate on Twitter.