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Building Something Together
In one week we’re going to try something new. A multi-disciplinary team is going to come together for one day and work together to build something that can be used by thousands of Londoners to make their lives just a little but easier, a little bit greener and hopefully a lot less stinky. Saturday September [...]
London’s First Open Data Hackathon
The weekend of September 25th, 2010 we’ll be hosting our first hackathon at unLondon‘s new unLab. We’ll be working out the details over the coming weeks but the idea is to hack together an application to help people find and remember their garbage pickup days. Why garbage? Two other Canadian cities – Ottawa and Vancouver [...]
Geek Dinner – August 4, 2010
The first Wednesday of every month social media enthusiasts and other London techies get together for Geek Dinner. This month you can find us at Gigs Grillhouse (420 Talbot Street at Carling). A number of people from the Open Data community will be there as well as organizers of PodCamp London, PhotoCamp London, ChangeCamp London [...]
London is an Open City.
Tonight London’s City Council unanimously passed the Open Data Initiative. There were great words of support from many Councilors. Thanks to everyone for all the hard work getting us here. None of this would have been possible without the support of Elaine Gamble and the team at City Hall. Elaine has become incredibly involved in [...]
Open Data Initiative goes to City Council for Approval
On July 26th London’s Open Data initiative will go before London’s City Council. There are a couple of things on the agenda before it comes up for vote but these should go through rather quickly I’m told. If all goes well we can expect it to come up for discussion/vote between 5:15pm and the dinner [...]