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I can share a couple experiences about this.
Some open data events have been using a 'speed dating' workshop format where organizations who are in need of help with their data are put in a room with technologists & designers. Using a timer, people shuffle from one station to the next, brainstorming and chatting. If that generates ideas and good will, then it can lead to a collaboration. I participated in one of these at an Ottawa open data event in late 2012 (early 2013?) and it was a lot of fun, everyone learned a lot. Instead of non-profits, the data owners were administrators in the Ottawa municipal government.
I think it's a great format for events. The hard part seems to be getting the data owners on board, and willing to talk openly about what their goals and problems are.
A web-based version of that concept would be to have a support forum where people are encouraged to post about their data problems, in order to receive feedback. I think the Discourse forum software would be an ideal tool for this, and have tried pitching that idea before.
At the ODX event I planned with Naomi Kincler in April 2013 we held a mini 'data dive'. Data dive is the name datakind uses for their events -- Naomi participated in the very first one in NYC. Our data dive involved getting people to form groups and browse a few curated data sets that were loaded onto a data portal. We provided a list of challenges, kind of like a treasure hunt with data. The data sets we chose were provided by domain experts at the event (like Michael L.), who could answer questions about it.
I would say this format is also a great way to get started with organizations who want to do more with data. It gets people talking, that's for sure. Ted
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They're not fully funded yet https://fundrazr.com/campaigns/1WXNc but have evidently already hosted an event: http://www.eventbrite.ca/e/data-for-good-inaugural-datathon-hack-for-helping-others-tickets-8011379251?aff=estw I'm interested in these sort of organizations and what they do as I'm the lead of our Open Data interest group of a small non-profit Hackerspace in Windsor http://hackf.org/opendatawindsoressex/ and our hope is to find a place in the Venn Diagram of technologists, non-profits, open data, small business and community involvement. We have a CKAN portal set up and we're about to get started. Mita On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Ted Strauss <[hidden email]> wrote:
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Sorry for the double post, but I had forgotten to mention another organization I noticed that is also in the Venn Diagram of Open Data and Community Involvement: M"The Ontario Trillium Foundation and Community Foundations of Canada have come together as founding partners to develop the Community Knowledge Exchange (CKX), an iterative and open approach to building and sharing community knowledge" : http://ckx.org/about/ On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Mita Williams <[hidden email]> wrote:
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Hi Mita,
And CKX has open data as one of their themes. My company has been working with them (CFC and Trillium) on moving some things forward for the event next autumn. A standard for domestic grant-making / social investment is one of them. http://www.drsinitiative.org
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Thanks for this information, Mita! Another possibly related initiative is http://apps4good.ca/ though I’m not sure if they’ve been active recently.
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