Lessons from Past Open Data Days

[David Eaves]

Hello Open Data Day organizers,

I know a few emails have gone around but I wanted to initiate a thread that I thought would help create some more effective open data days.

For those who have hosted one of these before... I was wondering if you could respond to the group with an email answering the following two bolded questions. Please keep answers to five sentences or less (make it quick and easy to read). To kick things off, I'm answering the question myself:

1. What is the best thing you have done at a past open data day event

David (Vancouver, Canada): The best thing we did was Open Dataing. Pioneered by the excellent group in Ottawa, this is a practice of getting government officials to share with participants various data sets that they curate (both open and available as well as closed). We organized tables in a circle (like a donut) and then had the officials sit inside the circle facing outwards. In groups of 4-5 Open Data Day participants would ask them questions about their data, what they had, what they did with it, why they collected it. The outcome was public officials had a much better sense of why people wanted their data (as well as new ideas about how they might use it) and participants had a better sense of what data government had, as well as the challenges around making some of it open.   

2. What is the biggest mistake you have made at a past open data day event

David (Vancouver, Canada) Two come to mind. 

- First, I once failed to organize food and we were in a location with poor access to quick take out. Fortunately we ordered pizza and asked people to donate for payment using one of our colleagues Square accounts.  

- Second, not sufficiently preparing simple project ideas people could do on Open Data Day. Lots of people show up eager to do something, but no ideas about what to work on. Having a list of possible projects is a great way to see things you'd like to see made or localized get worked on!

[Derk Steemers]

Thanks for the advice David. We'll definitely use it for our Open Data Day here in Vilnius.

[Patrick Atwater]

Thanks David.  The donut format looks super cool.  Any other pro tips on getting the work out?  

-PA from LA

[JJ Merelo]

Best thing: In 2015, several data journalists brought very interesting projects to the hackathon, with the idea of eventually preparing articles on data scraped and prepared. Lots of people from many different backgrounds joined in, since they were actually interested in the outcome.

Worst thing: We went outside the venue to have a beer and lunch (which is usual in Spain). We lost most of the people after that. From now on we will just serve some (light food, not too much beer) at the venue.

[Sammy joel Panwal]

Hello Mr. David, hope this mail gets you in good health. Our organization was late late to apply for the mini grant, but we have funds that can be used to host the ODD in our community. I want to know if that's possible and we can equally forward the report of the event to use after the event. Reply me Asap. Thanks.

[David Eaves]

Hi Sammy - great to hear you are interested in doing an event. The micro grants and run the Open Knowledge Foundation and so you’d need to connect with them regarding those…

Good luck!

Dave

> On Feb 22, 2020, at 1:44 PM, Sammy joel Panwal <sammyjo...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hello Mr. David, hope this mail gets you in good health. Our organization was late late to apply for the mini grant, but we have funds that can be used to host the ODD in our community. I want to know if that's possible and we can equally forward the report of the event to use after the event. Reply me Asap. Thanks.
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