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FYI Begin forwarded message: Subject: Community shout out - Be the first to know about the 2014 Global Open Data Index!
Date: September 25, 2014 at 1:13:50 PM GMT-4
Hello friends,
As a valued supporter of the Global Open Data Index (formerly known as both the Census and the Index) we would like to inform you first about our upcoming events and sprint schedule.
We tremendously appreciate your efforts for open data and would like to update you about some minor changes we have made in the Index workflow in order to accommodate your needs and make the Index even better than last year.
On Monday 30 September, the official “Global Open Data Index Marathon”, a series of regional sprints where we open the Index to new submissions, starts. This year, the sprints will be regional community efforts in which we will have dedicated time to answer questions and to fill-in the Index together. Hopefully many new people will come on board and submit datasets!
Last year, we used the term ‘Country Editors’ as our point of reference, and many of you were country editors. Editors not only reviewed datasets, but also helped make and promote contributions to the Census in their country. This year we decided to divide this role up and would like to give you the opportunity to choose how you will participate in the Global Open Data Index 2014 by becoming a Mentor, a Reviewer or both!
Become a mentor - A mentor is a valued supporter of the Index. This role involves a contributing to community engagement and outreach. A mentor can help us to find new contributors (volunteers who enter submissions to the Index) or support contributors by having an online ‘office hour’ (usually just once over the course of the sprints), in order to promote the Index to civil society organisations. We would also invite mentors to write blog posts and tweets in their native language. If you want to become a mentor, please fill in this form:
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER TO BECOME A MENTOR IN YOUR COUNTRY
Become a reviewer - A reviewer is involved in the final assessment stage of the Index, which takes place after the sprints. The reviewer reviews all the submissions of a country, validating the results and making corrections where needed. This year we will have one reviewer per country in order to simplify the validation of results. If you are an open data expert and want to help us please fill this form:
CLICK HERE TO OFFER TO BECOME A REVIEWER FOR YOUR COUNTRY
We hope to see many of you active on the list. Also, you are welcome to share your thoughts and ideas on the Index Community Pad.
The sprint schedule, based upon regional time zones is as follows:
30-SEP-2014 | MARATHON begins | 30-SEP-2014 -> 03-OCT-2014 | Sprint, Latin America + North America (at ConDatos, come say hi!) | 08-OCT-2014 -> 10-OCT-2014 | Sprint, Europe + Africa + MENA (Regional Google Hangout to follow) | 13-OCT-2014 -> 15-OCT-2014 | Sp(Regional Google Hangout to follow)rint, Asia + Pacific | 17-OCT-2014 | “Global Madness” - WHOLE WORLD fills any remaining data gaps |
The sprints will be launched with a blog post from us which will be posted to the OKFN website shortly - stay tuned.
At the conclusion of the sprints we’ll be asking you about this new process and how it worked to inform next year’s process.
We are very excited to run this upcoming Index with you. Please email us if you have questions.
Yours truly, Mor and Christian
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