Publishing events you organise as Open Data: Google Calendar
November 20, 2020 Events
If you want to list your events, Google Calendar is one option - we have published a guide on how to do this.
How to run a useful community data project
May 06, 2020 Open Data Services Coop
Recently we have seen several projects attempting to map community data to help people in these coronavirus times. We can understand why. People need good information more than ever, and they need information on a range of services and topics they weren’t looking up before.
How do we know what events people want to see on MeetYourNextMP?
June 24, 2015 MeetYourNextMP Events
MeetYourNextMP was a crowdsourced calendar of over 1000 independent events at the general election. This was to make these events easier to find so voters could go and question their candidates, and also to try and make more voters aware these events exist and are open to all.
When people came to the site, how did we know what events to show them? We asked people what their postcode was, and directed them to a page for each constituency. But what events did we show?
The problems finding details of independent hustings for MeetYourNextMP
June 23, 2015 MeetYourNextMP Events
“now that I follow my candidates, I’m really surprised how many hustings have happened / are happening that are terribly badly advertised” – Democracy Club Volunteer
MeetYourNextMP was a crowdsourced calendar of over 1,000 independent events at the general election. This was to make these events easier to find so voters could question their candidates, and also to try and make more voters aware these events exist and that they are welcome at them. However, before we could start on the second goal we had to crack the first goal.
Why MeetYourNextMP only listed independent events
June 22, 2015 MeetYourNextMP Events
MeetYourNextMP was a crowdsourced calendar of over 1,000 independent hustings or candidate forum events at the general election. Its purpose was to make these events easier to find so voters could go and question their candidates, and also to try to make more voters aware that these events exist and are open to all.
We chose to only list independent events. This was much discussed at the start and now the election’s over, it’s time to take a good look at this policy.
Open Tech Calendar is building a community of contributors
October 21, 2013 Open Tech Calendar Events
Open Tech Calendar is a website listing tech events. In this blog post we look into how many people edit the data.
One of the principal ideas behind Open Tech Calendar was that we could build a community of users all adding events for the good of everyone. We’ve been around a bit now, so can we break out some data to see if that’s actually worked?
Let’s start with a graph of all the users who have edited events, and how many edits they have made.
