International Open Data Day Hackathon – Feb 23-24, 2013

The public sector hackspace will be hosting a hackathon as part of International Open Data Day. This is a gathering of citizens around the world to write applications, liberate data, create visualizations and publish analyses using open public data to show support for and encourage the adoption open data policies by the world’s local, regional and national governments.

The hackathon will take place on the 23rd and 24th February 2013 at the public sector hackspace in Monmouthshire.

We are currently looking for:

  • Developers
  • Data Providers
  • Government Officers
  • Designers
  • Statisticians
  • Citizens
  • Sponsors

Right now we are trying to gauge the level of interest in this event, so if you would like to register yours, please either leave a message in the comments including a way to contact you, and/or drop your email address on our mailing list for this event http://eepurl.com/r__yb

If you are interesting in helping to organise this event, there will be a planning meeting at A Shot in the Dark in Cardiff on the 17th December, please register here if you would like to attend the planning meeting.