Comments on: GovHack: govt data + hackers + caffeine == good times

By: Episode Six — Interview with a Senator « A Capital Trio Talk Tech

Episode Six — Interview with a Senator « A Capital Trio Talk Tech — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:02:53 +0000

[...] John Allsopp’s blog post on the GovHack event [...]

By: Hacking for good « Change Meme

Hacking for good « Change Meme — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:50:52 +0000

[...] that are both useful and engaging. The Australian government is addressing this by creating “Gov Hack” events, where designers and developers go to work for a day and a half to find ways to [...]

By: Australia Government 2.0 Taskforce report to lead the way for citizen engagement — purecaffeine.com » ux, social, gov

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:23:58 +0000

[...] already seen evidence of that happening particularly with the launch of data.australia beta and the GovHack [...]

By: simonfj

simonfj — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:31:26 +0000

Well done John (and team), What can i say but bloody fantastic! I know that most of your efforts are based around hacking between the databases, and that just so good. But could we also give a little thought as to how these fests can be used to be inclusive of the Hughs of this world (in real time). In the e-research world we should be trying to include a global as well as national potential participants. I've been pointing a few of my global correspondents at this domain (and Kate's) to give them idea of how brilliant this community is. You might know that the place where you had the hack fest has enough tools and bandwidth to easily open the conversations, and share the learning. Many in their communities are at this one next week, and while they have bandwidth & many of the tools and techniques, this community has the drive and imagination (yo! pia). You do realise that you're developing a new form of e-research and e-education don't you? Mabe its time to ask the ARC for some funding?

By: Hugh Barnes

Hugh Barnes — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:59:07 +0000

Oh, nice, so they did! I guess sometimes starting at the top is better than random selection.

By: Alexander Sadleir

Alexander Sadleir — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:02:00 +0000

LobbyClue used OpenLayers to display OpenStreetMap data as the base layer for the geovisualisation.

By: Hugh Barnes

Hugh Barnes — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:58:38 +0000

Of course. Brisvegas. Lots of precedents for pulling this sort of thing off without needing to be physically gathered, too.

By: Hugh Barnes

Hugh Barnes — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:53:20 +0000

John/anyone: did any of the projects use Openstreetmap instead of Google Maps? Forgive my laziness, I’ve looked at a few of the projects without luck – just hoping someone will know offhand.

By: John Allsopp

John Allsopp — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:53:18 +0000

You can always plan your own – where are you based?

By: Hugh Barnes

Hugh Barnes — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:47:09 +0000

Any similar events planned for other parts of the country, John? I’m feeling kinda out of reach.