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January 2014 meet-up at the National Library of Scotland

Many thanks for Nicola Osborne for taking copious notes that formed the basis of this post. Recordings of the meet-up are available: Part 1 (Gill, Stevie, Grainne, Graeme) Part 2 (Sara, Tabitha, News) January’s Open Data meetup was hosted once again in the fantastic National Library of Scotland, which is beginning to establish itself as more »

Open Science Local Working Group

The Open Knowledge Foundation Scotland Local Group is growing fast, and it’s great to see that the growth is spread across different cities (currently Edinburgh and Glasgow). In terms of Open Science, the international OKF Working Group has grown to over 630 members(!) on the mailing list and now has local groups or representation in: more »

Meeting up with Rufus Pollock

The Open Data Scotland Conference organised by Holyrood magazine on 10th December was a landmark occasion, and the keynote talk was delivered by Rufus Pollock, founder of the Open Knowledge Foundation. We decided to capitalise on Rufus’s trip north by organising an impromptu #OpenDataEDB on the preceding day, giving him an opportunity to find out more »

Events page powered by Open Data

It’s a cause for celebration when a community can generate and sustain lots of events around openness. But it can also be a source of problems. As the Open Knowledge Foundation Local Group in Scotland continues to thrive, we are beginning to collaborate more and more with the Scottish OpenStreetMap and Wikimedia communities, and of more »

EdinburghApps

The City of Edinburgh Council (CEC)’s first ‘civic challenge event’ took place this month, and yielded some outstanding results. This flexible hackathon launched on the 26th of September with the Council announcing its ever-increasing open data sources, the categories that submissions were to be entered in to, and the judges. Five weeks later — which more »