[OpenSpending] Community update - Data Clinic tomorrow, community news and global spending weekend July 20-21

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

This looks promising for some of you transparency folks!

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From: "Anders Pedersen" <[hidden email]>
Date: Jun 4, 2013 8:09 AM
Subject: [OpenSpending] Community update - Data Clinic tomorrow,
community news and global spending weekend July 20-21
To: "OpenSpending Discussion List" <[hidden email]>

All,

Here's a short community update.

#Do you need community support for working on your spending data? Say
hello to the bi-weekly Data Clinic!
A lot of great spending projects are in the making, but in need of
community support for tips on how to clean and upload the data.

We'll therefore begin to run bi-weekly Data Clinic - a community drop
in for all troubleshooting you need in order to get working on
OpenSpending.
All you need to bring is your messy data, and you'll be able to ask
the community on tips on how to tackle your spending data.

The first Data Clinic will take place tomorrow Wednesday 5 June at
19:00 CET as chat via skype (ping: anpehej) or IRC #openspending

The introduction of the Data Clinic also means that we'll have
community discussions and support every Wednesday - either as Data
Clinic or Community GoogleHangouts.

#Community projects
Fellix is working on Andalusian procurement data. Data quality seems
good, and would be interesting to compare with the data available in
OpenTED.

Cecilia and the investigative journalism team at IRPI has claimed the
Italian structural fund data and will be working to add it to
OpenSpending. They need help cleaning a few of the data fields so
please get in touch if you can help!

Tarek would be interested looking at spending data from Egypt

Pierre has helped scrape, clean and upload procurement data from
Senegal to OpenSpending. He'll post on the OpenSpending blog soon.

Benjamin is working on the EU procurement data opendted.pudo.org

Most of the projects could need advice or a helping hand, so get in
touch if you want to help or share!

Spending data from the city of Washington DC was uploaded during the
weekend as part of #Hackforchange.

#Global Weekend on city spending data July 20-21
The past months has seen strong growth in local spending projects. As
we want to support and grow these initiatives we're asking if you'll
join us to organise a global spending weekend to open city spending on
July 20-21. The spending weekend will offer online trainings and
support to your local group to help you get your project off the
ground.

Hiroichi (OKF Japan), Mor (Hasadna) and Adam (Open Budget Oakland)
have already expressed interest in the idea, and we'd love to hear if
you want to be involved.

Check and add your self to the planning document


Anders

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