I started following Mano Marks on Google+ after the recent #WhereCampPHX
event. Today he has a post about an event happening next month in Europe.
https://plus.google.com/107054744026933176373/posts/WRrohEXWuhg
Here's a quote from Google's Open Source blog:
Over the course of 24 hours, hackers will work to make data more accessible
> and intelligible to consumers, to government, and to anyone who’s interested
> in the state of Internet access and information availability around the
> world.
David
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A little bit of this mixed with some of that ...