From: Petter Reinholdtsen Date: Sat, 9 May 2015 11:54:16 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Todays talk. X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/commitdiff_plain/3f086f688ff5ca029cf2cdcae4a8dddad6e09ada Todays talk. --- diff --git a/mypapers/2015-nuug-civic-hacking.html b/mypapers/2015-nuug-civic-hacking.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..9b7d1790db --- /dev/null +++ b/mypapers/2015-nuug-civic-hacking.html @@ -0,0 +1,161 @@ + + + + + + + + + + + + +

NUUGs plan for Civic Hacking

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Ideas for Civic Hacking in Norway

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Petter Reinholdtsen +
pere@hungry.com +
Norwegian Unix User Group +
OSDC, 2015-05-09

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What to expect

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Why Civic Hacking? +
Never heard of NUUG? +
Some completed projects +
Some planned projects +
Some project ideas +

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Why Civic Hacking

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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed + citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that + ever has." +
- Margaret Mead

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Never heard of Norwegian Unix User Group / NUUG?

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Member association consisting of around 300 people.
For us believing free software, open standards and UNIX-like + operating systems are important.
Funded in 1984 to help members get access to email.
Social and professional events.
Hope to affect public policy and improve society.
While having fun.
Cooperate with Holder de ord, Frikanalen and others.
NUUG have the skills and equipment to have an impact.

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FiksGataMi

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Help the government to fix public infrastructure.
Citizens service and focus.
Announced in 2011.
Based on FixMyStreet from mySociety.

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Mimes brønn / Mimes well

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Help citizens learn what the government know.
Help the government save time by only providing information once.
Covered in separate talk.
Based on Alaveteli from mySociety.

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What is needed

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Keeping an eye on the government, the press and the + corporations.
Open data and data analysis.
Downloadable raw data and Web API access.
RSS sources.
Free and open content license (preferrably something like + PDDL or + CC0).

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Services needed

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Locate, track and archive all Norwegian work in the public + domain (using RDF?).
Election handout archive, + https://electionleaflets.org/
Central archive of government mail journals.
Historic parliament records (current ones can be found on + http://data.stortinget.no/).
Election candidate archive, [mysociety, NO gov].
Party funding data.
Government budget and accounting data.
Parliament video archive.

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References

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http://www.nuug.no/
http://www.fiksgatami.no/
http://www.mysociety.org/
http://www.holderdeord.no/
Mapping Hacks by Schyler Erle

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Thank you

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Questions?

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http://www.hungry.com/~pere/mypapers/2015-nuug-civic-hacking.html

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