Minutes Board Meeting Opendata.ch:
November 11th 2014
Participants: Sylke, Andreas, André, Hannes, Sylke, Yann, Mehdi, Antoine, Christian, Barnaby & Muriel (minutes)
Excused: Oleg, Giorgio, Matthias
Minutes Board Meeting October 7th 2014
-> Unanimously approved by the board
Board Meetings 2015
- Tuesday January 13th 2015, 14 to 18 pm, dinner until 21 pm?
- Location: Universität Bern [Matthias can offer a room in the university main building but cannot attend the retreat due to a conference in Wallis the same date, very sorry!]
- Agenda?
- Tuesday June 30th 2015, 14 to 18 pm, dinner until 21 pm?
- Location: Universität Bern (Matthias organizes room)
- Agenda?
Branding: Opendata.ch vs. Open Knowledge vs. Open Knowledge International vs. Opendata.swiss…
- Oleg ordered stickers on moo.com with a Swiss “Open Knowledge” logo.
- The federal data portal is rumored to be running on http://opendata.swiss in the future - which would be rather confusing.
- André owns pretty much all .ch domain names around open data / open knowledge
- The current brand / design has significant value and costed a lot of time and money.
- Let’s take a decision:
- Keep opendata.ch for the time being, focus on that brand.
- Be liberal/confusing and use both the Open Knowledge brand as well as opendata.ch.
- Prepare to give up opendata.ch and transition to the Open Knowledge brand name.
-> Subject to be discussed more in detail during the next board retreat on January 13
-> Until then, version i. is being applied
Opendata.ch Conference 2015
- 1 July 2015 all rooms on 1st level at main building of University of Bern reserved
- Asked Regierungsrätin Beatrice Simon for closing keynote at around 16h, she is probably coming
- Concept: as usual, or some new form?
- Responsibility / some committee / track chairs?
- Budget?
- Annual member meeting
-> Plan: Discuss about the form of the conference before January 13
-> Muriel will set up a google doc and share it with the board
-> Matthias started to invite people for the conference, but has not yet further concrete plans about the conference
-> Intention: Integrate the General Assembly again in the main program of the conference
Pending Tasks
-> Board members will have a look at their respective biography on http://opendata.ch/organisation/board/ & http://fr.opendata.ch/organisation/comite/
-> check for mistakes and/or outdated info
-> send Muriel the corrected version via eMail or update it yourself via wordpress
Open Transport Working Group
- Interesting conversations with top-level mgmt
- Large upcoming event at SBB, with CIO etc, next Monday at Stade de Suisse
- Next steps are to be political.
Open GLAM Working Group
-> Opendata.ch and Wikimedia CH as official partners of the Hackathon
-> Micha L. Rieser will presumably take over the organization of the event
-> Muriel keeps the board updated on the ongoing organisation of the event
Open Research Data Working Group
- is openresearchdata.ch a WG… or becoming one?
- Open Science/Research Data Hackday” in May 2015: Status Update André
-> Concrete next steps have to be defined (André in charge)
-> Yann willing to help ASAP (cf. also Hackuarium.ch activities)
Open Finance Working Group
- Kickoff meeting for Opendata.ch Open Finance Working Group planned for early January 2015 at University of Bern. Goal will be to define requirements for budget upload platform on budget.opendata.ch. Invitation is sent out to OKF-CH mailing list and people engaged in open finance lately. This is the Doodle survey: http://doodle.com/w3ypsauvyu3phm7z
- 21 January 2015: Workshop in Bern on open finance and participatory budgeting with Prof. Jörn von Lucke (The Open Government Institute Zeppelin University), Uwe Herrmanns (Finanzdezernent Landratsamt Bodenseekreis), Sylke Gruhnwald (SRF), Matthias Stürmer (University of Bern) etc.
- Research Center for Digital Sustainability produced spending visualization for Canton of Bern with D3.js: http://keetraxx.github.io/kanton-bern-finanzen/#/2013/
- Research Center for Digital Sustainability produced budget 2015 visualization for City of Brig-Glis with D3.js: http://brig-glis.budget.opendata.ch/
-> As Matthias is no longer in the Skype Call, please read these points carefully
Exchange of information
- Good open data stuff at Lift 2014 Basel: Chas Bountra / http://www.thesgc.org (powerful call for Open Research re: drug dicovery)
-> Video will be out soon and Opendata.ch (Hannes/Muriel) will communicate about it
-> Input from Chas Bountra will be valuable for Open Research Data Working Group
- Good open data stuff at Lift 2015 Geneva: Russel Davies + Opencorporates (Chris Taggart @CountCulture will be present 5-7 February)(cf. #flashhacks, Oleg and Yann met them at OKFest Berlin)
-> Come up with ideas to make sure Russel Davies gets in touch with our partners
-> Let Hannes know if you have an idea
- Oleg is starting work on an “OGD Handbook” project to conceptualise and start accessible documentation for government. While this is not immediately relevant to Opendata.ch, the goal is to cross-pollinate & -promote down the road.
- If anyone is interested in taking part in a School of Data workshop next year, please send Oleg a note and let’s collaborate.
Varia
- Idea of an “Open” Space in Lausanne:
Wikimedia CH is looking for a new office in Lausanne
Idea: Build an “open & free knowledge” hub in Lausanne, in collaboration with like-minded partner institutions such as Opendata.ch, OSM etc.
Request: Is this of interest to Opendata.ch?
-> Input Yann: UniverCity.ch is an Open Community Lab, and it still has plenty of space ;)
-> e.g. meeting space available for 50+ people, co-working for 20-25 people
-> Opendata.ch sees no need at the moment for such a space in Zurich nor Lausanne
-> Clustering WMCH & UniverCity -> Yann & Muriel will see with WMCH
- Update from Mehdi: Event planned for 2015 by LeTemps
Target: Chance to bring all Opendata Communities together in the western part of Switzerland during a Conference, hosted by LeTemps
What: Hackathon/Conference to find new ways for storytelling
Who: Experts, Developers
When: Probably November 2015
-> Input Yann:
Careful: 3rd week of Nov. = Global Entrepreneurship Week (i.e. Startup WeekEnd GE)
-> Conclusion:
Mehdi goes ahead with organizing the event and will keep the board of Opendata.ch posted
