A few weeks from now, November 9th to be exact, I will be sitting in a Boeing 737, 30,000 plus feet above ground and bound for Victoria, British Columbia. British Columbia is becoming one of the most appealing provinces to live in, at least for me anyways. Not only has the Provincial Government adopted Open [...]
Over the past couple of weeks, a group of citizens (including myself) joined together to create something remarkable. A product which allows easy reminders and information retrieval for garbage collect – London Trash, a product of Open Data London. So why did we choose to do trash and garbage collection? Well this is simple. London [...]
Yesterday was the start of Open Data London’s first hackathon. We kicked off at around 9:00 o’clock in the morning and worked until about 8:00 PM last night. Some left early, others stayed longer and some worked into the night. That being said, I would have to say that so far this hackathon has been [...]
On the weekend of September 25, 2010, one of London’s newest non-profit organizations, unLondon, will host our first Open Data hackathon. But what is a hackathon? No, we will not be breaking into computer systems, but instead, collaborating and creating one of London’s most demanding open data applications – London Trash. Google’s definition of a [...]
