Open Knowledge Meetup @republica schedule

Wednesday 2nd May 2012

• 18:15 Meetup at the Wikimedia Tent

  by Hauke, Kat Braybrooke and Daniel Dietrich

  At 6:15pm to 7:00pm, Wednesday 2nd May

  In STATION-Berlin

Thursday 3rd May 2012

• 18:15 Meetup at the Wikimedia Tent

  by Friedrich Lindenberg, Lucy Chambers and Kat Braybrooke

  At 6:15pm to 7:00pm, Thursday 3rd May

  In STATION-Berlin

Friday 4th May 2012

• ZUGMONITOR – DECODING REALTIME TRAIN DATA FOR PUBLISHING

  by Pieter Colpaert

  Millions of passengers use Germany’s railway system every month – but which trains are often running late, what are the structural problems? Doing an interactive piece about that complex network is of great worth for both journalism and society. Stefan Plöchinger, editor-in-chief of Süddeutsche Zeitung’s online news site, and Lorenz Matzat, co-founder of OpenDataCity, give an overview of the project: idea, process, obstacles, working with data, doing journalism with data and reactions.

  Pieter Colpaert will talk about Informing commuters in Belgium
  In 2008 our not-for profit organisation created a simple mobile web-app to look up train schedules, called iRail.be. As no other mobile app existed, this became a huge success, until we had some dispute over copyright in 2010. In 2012 our servers are still up and running, we started a legal structure supporting 30 volunteers, and we are promoting digital creativity using open transport data.

  At 1:45pm to 2:00pm, Friday 4th May

  In STATION-Berlin

• 18:15 Meetup at the Wikimedia Tent

  by Stefan Wehrmeyer, OKF DE, Hauke, FragDenStaat.de and Kat Braybrooke

  At 6:15pm to 7:00pm, Friday 4th May

  In STATION-Berlin