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Community Update 2011

(DRAFT)

Dear Community,

it's time for another community update! Community updates (read: Communitaaaaaaah) are little stories that tell us what we have been doing in the last month. Let's call it our parish journal!

The NPO has been founded

13 Jan 2011 -

Meeting De Lijn

2 Feb 2011 - Data in April/May

  • They'll contact us in ~2 weeks to discuss whether or not they'll open up their data (and the terms).
    • If they agree to provide us the data, we will get static dumps (one per night) in 3 to 4 months.

MIVB

  • We contacted MIVB, however, they have not replied yet.

ItaliaCamp

4 Feb 2011 - Yeri talked at the European Parliament for ItaliaCamp

  • We swapped business cards with Open Italy, an initiative helping organisations getting access to open data and helping on licenses.

FOSDEM

5 & 6 Feb 2011 - bdg, fosdem talk + links, ...

  •  bdg: plans on creating a open source Ruby application that will keep track of train delays and generate a PDF to get a refund by NMBS.

We are going to test in the near future a "logging feature". Basically keeping all delays (between certain hours and/or trajects/stations) on disk.

  • FOSDEM talk: good feeedback

We got approached by people who might be able to provide us data from the UK (such as buses (including school buses), trains, etc)

  • Ywein Vanden Brande: still supports our project, willing to help in case we ever need counsel.

The cabinet of Crevits

7 Feb 2011 - minister of mobility

Introducing new community members

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New Apps

BeTrains? for ...


APIv2.0

Mini-Meeting February 8

The General Meeting the 14th of February