Already? Yes already! It’s time for our second meetup! Come meet fellow Hong Kong Open Data enthusiasts to find out what Open Data is all about and explore your ideas. Whether you’re already familiar with Open Data or want to find out just what it is, come to our regular meetup (happens every 3 weeks).
Invite a friend! Bring two! We want to spread the news about Open Data in Hong Kong, especially as we ramp up toward our weekend hackathon “Make” jam May 18th.
Schedule (subject to change - feel free to arrive when you can): 7:00pm: Drink, mingle. Get a nametag, put it on. Get on the wifi. Joke about closed data. 7:30pm Topic discussions! With bonus MCing/nagging by Wai-Chung Bastien Brief unpolished presentations of various lengths on the following to stir up discussion on the following topics:
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New resources on the Google Plus group (with Bill Proudfit)
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What is & what isn’t open data: Good Open Data, Bad Open Data, not Open Data, and not Data Wai-Chung Bastien
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Scraping data and using ScraperWiki (with Guy Freeman)
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What the heck the JMSC is up to (Darcy Christ)
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Strategy for Growing Open Data and Its Uses in Hong Kong (with Scott Drummonds)
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The upcoming awesome OpenDataHK website (with Mart van de Ven and maybe Wai-Chung Bastien
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The “Make” event on May 18-19 & Catalyst event on the 14th Mart van de Ven