Event details
When
10am - 3pm
Saturday, 12th January 2008
Where
Spey & Ness Rooms, City Inn, 30 John Islip Street, Westminster, London
What's POIR8 about?
POIR8 = Power of Information Review Recommendation 8
"To improve government's responsiveness to demand for public sector information, by July 2008 OPSI should create a web-based channel to gather and assess requests for publication of public sector information."
So, how should this service work?
Are you asking about the process....?
I would suggest learning about how Open Space Technology has been working in tech communities. This is an ever so slightly more formal process then traditional BarCamp. It has an agenda creation process where folks write the name of their session on a peice of paper, they announce the name of their session to the whole group and then post it in a grid. They also follow the Principles of Open Space and the Law of Two feed (They are inseparable). You might also think about how you have some other processes in your mix - this could include - Appreciative Inquiry, Fishbowls, perhaps some 'on ramp' material (lecture - one to many/whole group) to help folks orient to what "is" currently and what is hoped for. before going into open space. Closings where everyone talks about what they learned are good to do along with issuing a book of proceedings - the notes of all the sessions compiled.
Feel free to dive into my blog to read more on these topics unconference.net
OPSI comment: the above is an excellent suggestion - we will do it this way
Sponsors
Office of Public Sector Information
Schedule
BTW:.... BarCamps and conferences DON'T have pre-set schedules... they are largely created the day the event happens by the people there and have multiple breakouts.''
Proposed Sessions
- Background to Power of Information Review - Why a re-use request web channel?, Lessons learnt so far., What will success look like?
- Offers and/or Requests for PSI?
- How much info to ask from requesters?
- How to assess/rate requests?
- Formats for data? (requesters specify?)
- What happens to old requests?
- How should the requesting process work?
- What type of data do people want?
- What are the barriers?
Topics I would like to hear about
- Microformats
- Accessibility and web standards
- Ensuring access with free software is not excluded
- Licensing, public domain, extent of applicability of crown copyright
- add a topic...
Planners
John Sheridan
Giorgia Meletsis
Volunteers
Participants (aka Campers)
John Sheridan
Giorgia Meletsis
Tim Matthews
Michael Cross
Andrew Betts (OnOneMap - sorry I was a no-show! Dog got sick this morning and I've spent the day at the vet :-( Hope it went well. Will outcomes be posted here?)
Dave Crossland
Rob McKinnon (UK Hansard prototype, TheyWorkForYou.co.nz)
Ed Parsons
Jim Downing
Tom Steinberg
Francis Irving
Stephan Carlyle
Jonathan Gray (The Open Knowledge Foundation)
Robert Brook
Richard Quarrell
Glyn wintle (Open Rights Group)
Task List
(please cross out when it's done)
Tech
Wifi
Projector, White Boards
Non-tech
Breakfast, inc coissants
Lunch
Coffee/Tea and afternoon cakes
Tables and chairs
Tags for flickr, delicious, ma.gnolia, technorati etc.
Please use the tag BarCampPOIR8 for content related to this event
Who's blogging?
Dave Crossland (blog)
The event is listed on Upcoming.
