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 marked a day in history for London’s Open Data Initiative. The City of London, Ontario, launched the first phase of their initiative their open data initiative to the public, making available the first set of data sets through their catalog. The City of London released a total of 22 datasets (from my count) which [...]
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 [...]
Earlier this week while I was looking into a few things for one the classes which I am enrolled in at Fanshawe College – I discovered something shocking. Note however, this was found when I got bored of looking for course material and thought, “Hey! What is being announced to students this semester.” One of [...]
