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# Economics Hackathon Follow-Up 10th March 2012
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* When: Saturday 10th March - 1pm GMT (2 pm CET / 8 am EST)
* Where: Online
** IRC: #okfnecon channel on freenode via http://webchat.freenode.net/
** Skype + this pad
 
Participants (working on Yourtopia 2)
* Velichka
* Marian
* Rufus
* Dirk
* Guo
* Rosamaria
 
 
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# Economics Hackathon Follow-Up 4th February 2012
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= Where and When
 
* When: Saturday 4th February - 2pm GMT (3 pm CET / 9 am EST)
* Where: Online
** IRC: #okfnecon channel on freenode via http://webchat.freenode.net/
** Skype + this pad
 
= Participants (please add your skype and twitter account)
Oluseun  Onigbinde (s: oluseunonigbinde, t:budgitng)
* Velichka Dimitrova (s: vn.dimitrova, t: vndimitrova)
* Guo Xu
* rosamaria bitetti
* João Pedro Cruz (irc: k0rnix , s: joaopedro.cruz)
* Rufus Pollock (rufuspollock)
* Rich Harris (@rich_harris, s: richard.a.harris) - hi there Rich. Up for some more coding. I am going to try planning out tasks a bit more in the github issues
* Tim Hubbard (timjph)
 
= Summary of data work
 
# Labour market
* employment
* youth unemployment
* long-term unemployment
 
# Education
* tertiary education
* early leavers
* people neither in work nor in education
 
# Health
* infant mortality rate
* health perception
* chronic deseases
 
# Environment
* Renewable energy share
* GHG emissions
* Air quality
 
# Science and Technology
* patent applications
* researchers
* internet users
 
# Household Income and Poverty
* gini
* poverty incidence
* satisfaction
 
# Crime and Security
* homicides
* thefts
* crime perception in each area
 
# The Economy - Macroeconomics
* GDP per capita
* inflation
* regional debt?
 
# Public Services
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= What to Work on
 
* http://okfnlabs.org/yourtopia/
* Translations of the Yourtopia 2 text
 
 
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# Economics Hackathon 28th January 2012
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= Where and When
 
* When: Saturday 28th January - 11am GMT (12pm CET / 6am EST) to ~7pm GMT (8pm CET, 3pm EST ...) - some people will also be around on Friday 27th (same times)
* Where: Online (IRC, Skype and this pad) and also in person in London (The Barbican - Golden lane, London EC1Y 8DL - Meet us at the public space coffee area in the main hall on floor G) Phone me at 0780 77 45268 if you get lost.
* MeetUp page: http://www.meetup.com/OpenKnowledgeFoundation/London-GB/583892/
 
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= Data
 
We're using the DataHub: http://thedatahub.org/ for storing and curating data.
 
Howto here:
    * Register: http://thedatahub.org/user/register
    * http://help.thedatahub.org/get-started-publishing.html
    * Suggest DataHub + google docs option in first instance
 
http://thedatahub.org/group/economics
 
http://thedatahub.org/dataset/yourtopia-italy
 
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/europe_2020_indicators/headline_indicators
http://database.espon.eu/regional (mostly Eurostat but with some more details)
 
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/region_cities/regional_statistics/data/main_tables
 
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/region_cities/regional_statistics/data/main_tables
 
http://www.imf.org/external/data.htm
Italian institute of statistics [EN]: http://www.istat.it/en/
Find datasets by region (top corner on the right, select territory, select region)
Example: Region of Sardegna: http://www.istat.it/en/sardegna
Select Labour 
Find datasets based on age, gender, etc. 
 
I have downloaded nine data sets relating to employment in Italy by gender, sector, region, area (North, South), etc. 
Find them here: http://thedatahub.org/user/federicacocco
Source: ISTAT
 
 
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# YourTopia 2 
 
http://econ.okfnpad.org/yourtopia-2
 
 
 
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= Participants
 
Please add your name plus skype (optionally: twitter handles, website ...)
 
Also indicate if you can participate in pre-planning on the 27th ...
 
* Velichka Dimitrova (s: vn.dimitrova, t: vndimitrova)
* Rufus Pollock (s+t: rufuspollock) 
* Guo Xu (s:guoxu_voip t: misologie)
* Dirk Heine (s: d_heine) please add on Skype, so I can add you to the conversation
* Stefano Costa
* Giacomo Luchetta
* Massimiliano (@masstrovato)
* Rosamaria
* Loes
* David Rogers (s:rogers.dave t:DocLRogers)
* David t:dasfaha
* Tim Hubbard: @timjph timjph@gmail.com
* Michele Mattioni: (t: mattions, s: mattions)
* Rupert Greenhalgh (t: rupe_greenhalgh, s: rupert greenhalgh)
* Paul David Evans (s:uglysludgebucket )
* James Casbon (t: casualbon)
* Ilias Bartolini (t:@iliasbartolini ...will join later in the afternoon) => Ask for photos ;)
* Rich Harris (t: @rich_harris)
* Tom Pollard (E: tom.pollard<at>ubiquitypress.com; S: tomjpollard)
* John Burn-Murdoch (s: john.burn.mudoch, t: @jburnmurdoch)
* Federica Cocco (fedcocco@gmail.com @federicacocco)
* Sam Leon (t: @noel_mas)
 
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= Agenda
 
== Introductions
 
Who is here? Please enter your name and a sentence about yourself on the Etherpad. What brought you here today? Do you want to suggest a discussion topic?
 
Rich Harris - I'm a financial journalist turned front end developer (JavaScript etc) with an interest in how news organisations can use web technologies to present data better
 
Harry Burt - I'm a fulltime student (including of economics) and a part-time coder (primarily PHP but also some JavaScript experience more likely to be of use here :)
 
Michele Mattioni - I'm wrapping up a PhD in computational Neuroscience. I'm in the open-science group and interested in open-data. Some python experience (django mostly)
 
Tom Pollard - I'm a postgraduate student at UCL and I help to run Ubiquity Press (http://www.ubiquitypress.com/ ), an open access publisher led by researchers.
 
John Burn-Murdoch - I'm a postgraduate student on City University's Interactive Journalism MA. I've written data stories for the Guardian and Telegraph newspapers recently and am currently in the process of taking over as co-editor of http://www.datajournalismblog.com/
 
Massimiliano Trovato - I'm a policy analyst with a legal background, primarily working on tech and telecom issues. I'm deeply interested in open-everything.
 
Federica Cocco - Journalist, working on a project at the Times. Datajournalism rookie. 
 
Ilias Bartolini - software developer, open source, free software & agile develpment. A bit of many technologies. Recently interested in Open Data and Education.
 
Tim Hubbard @timjph - main job head of informatics at Sanger Institute (Human Genome Project); advocate of open data, open publishing (Advisory Board of ukPMC); with Rufus and others created a couple of wdmmg apps in 2010 (e.g. Budgetizer)
 
=== Overview of Yourtopia 2 / ProgressVote
 
View and comment on the MockUp here: 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XvlmcgkAMYdG529IOf5OhQjltTqmiJHXdcZFPOoWMwM/edit ; 
 
* Userstories: http://econ.okfnpad.org/yourtopia-userstories
* Datasets: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Am9hsZClSlJ2dGlBaFJYT3RBVnVBcVVZRWkyc1J0aVE#gid=0
 
https://github.com/okfn/yourtopia
 
== Budgetizer
 
Spent day cleaning up this app - had been removed as result of move from hg to git.
* App now running at: http://wheredoesmymoneygo.org/budget/budgetizer/
* Old blog post: http://wheredoesmymoneygo.org/2010/07/27/alpha-version-of-the-budgetizer/
* App runs off data curated in googledocs spreadsheet - now registered as datahub dataset: http://thedatahub.org/dataset/uk-economic-summary-data
* Spreadsheet update to include 11/2011 OBR statement
 
== Planning and Brainstorming
 
http://econ.okfnpad.org/hackathon-jan-2011-ideas
 
* Please join us on the IRC channel #okfnecon: for the general chat
Please, feel free to present yourself, the idea you want to work on and add another IRC channel.
 
To connect to IRC, please install Colloquy for Mac and X-Chat/SilvereX/ChatZilla for Windows with the server irc.freenode.net  or use browser chat Free Node (http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=okfnecon, click "Join a Room" and type the name of the room you are joining. Everybody, please join #okfnecon. 
 
= Twitter
 
#openecon, #okfn & #econhackday are the hashtags of the day
 
= What to Work on
 
Add them here: http://econ.okfnpad.org/hackathon-jan-2011-ideas
Youtopia2 ethernet --> http://econ.okfnpad.org/yourtopia-2