Open Knowledge Miniconf 2016

Created by Matthew Cengia@mattcenhttps://mattcen.github.io/intro-to-open-knowledge-miniconf-2016

Who am I

• Computer Scientist
• Linux Systems Adminstrator/Developer
• Playing with Linux and open source since 2005
• Cyber IT Solutions (cyber.com.au)
• Computers in Prisons (PrisonPC.com)
• Funemployed as of last Friday
• Scout Leader
• Mapping Hobbyist
• Security/privacy advocate and enthusiast
• Open Knowledge Australia ambassador (au.okfn.org)

What is Open Knowledge?

• Open source software
• Open data
• Open government
• Open hardware
• Open research/journals

GovHack

HealthHack

Melbourne

Melbourne

• Meet the data owners
• Demonstrations of software and tools
• Tutorials and workshops
• Shut up and hack
• Community drinks and dumplings

Schedule

• 10:40 Miniconf open
• 10:50 Open Council Data(?) - Steve Bennett
• 11:05 OpenTechSchool - open learning in practice by Lillian Ryan
• 11:30 Open Data + Video Games = Win by Paris Buttfield-Addison
• 12:20 Lunch

Schedule (cont)

• 13:20 Open information: Documenting data and methods by Rhydwyn beta
• 13:45 Prying Open Government - An Introduction to Freedom of Information by Dan Hawke
• 14:10 Internet Archive: Universal Access. Open APIs by VM Brasseur
• 15:00 Afternoon tea
• 15:40 Prospects and pitfalls in open demography by Fred Michna
• 16:30 TBA

Intro to Open Knowledge Miniconf 2016 by Matthew Cengia is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. https://github.com/mattcen/intro-to-open-knowledge-miniconf-2016 This presentation written in reveal.jsThey have an example presentation here