Open Data AI Climate Justice Calendar

Open Data AI Climate Justice Calendar
Date	2023/03/06
Time	1800-2300
Location	TechInc
Type	Hackathon
Contact	User:Becha

As a part of "Open Data for AI" by Open Knowledge Foundation , we are organizing collaborative meetup / hackathon / discussion about: curating and creating shared calendar of Climate Justice events.

Info

• Date: Monday, 6 March 2023
• Time: 18:00 - 21:00
• Place: Technologia Incognita hackerspace, Amsterdam (Louwesweg 1)

Story

Background story: at the DRxCJ workshop in Berlin in November 2022, "we" realised that a shared calendar of events would help us to facilitate cooperation between movements & organisations -- we could learn from each other, exchange experiences, and meet more often.

Challenges

This is not an easy problem to solve, because...

• coordinating humans is a hard job
• "search" technology is a multibillion $ business...
• multiplication of standards -> https://xkcd.com/927/
• Not-invented-here factor

Example Calendars

Existing calendars

- ripe.net/events (& https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/calendar) 
- nsrc.net/calendar (Education Outreach and Training (EOT) Calendar for Internet Development) 
- pch.net/calendar (Calendar of Internet Governance Meetings in 2023) 
- https://amsterdamalternative.nl/agenda
- https://radar.squat.net 
- https://mobilize.berlin/  

Projected

Requirements

- FLOSS (not proprietary)
- Open Data  
- global 
- searchable & sortable 
- open for contributions AND moderated 
- easy to "parse" / export by API / RSS / (nnn?) 
- nice to have: export to ISC calendar entries 
- nice to have: subscribe to it by mailing list (for specific categories / tags) 
- nice to have: hosted on a memorable (short) URL  =>  - isoc.org?   apc.net? 

Sources

- radar.squat.net
- ccc events 
- meetup.org
- eventbrite
- Wikipedia
- personal collections , e.g. https://wiki.techinc.nl/User:Becha/events2023
- https://climatecultures.net/get-involved/receive-updates/ 
- https://www.digitalrights.community/events

Existing software

- LibrEvents https://libr.events/
- FRAB? 
- 

Possible platforms

- wikipedia
- Fediverse? 
- 

Participants

• DRxCJ mailing list;
• E-impact list
• HSNL
• UnCiv

budget

• contribution for the rent of space: 100€
• cleaning fee: 60€
• food & drinks : 50-90€ (depends on # people)
• transport reimbursement for people traveling to Amsterdam: 30-120€
• hosting of the calendar data for a year: 12*5€ = 60€
• t-shirts: 100€
• Total ~~440€