make.opendata.ch 2012: Bern
- Hackathon
27 April 2012, 13:00–21:30 @ Universität Bern, Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik, Raum 111, Engehaldenstrasse 8, 3012 Bern
The first local make.opendata.ch hackday in Bern took place on 27 April and focused on locally relevant topics: the Bern budget, Bern’s politicians, Bern’s neighbourhoods – and the Aare.
Photos
Photo: opendata.ch, Oleg Lavrovsky
Documentation and recordings
- Hackday Bern, 27. April 2012 (Wiki)
- Wiki: Projekte und Presse
- Rückblick auf opendata.ch: Visueller Zugang zum Stadtberner Budget 2012
- Der Bund: Sie wollen Daten für das Volk «veredeln»
- Der Bund: Hacker spielen mit Finanzdaten
- Tages-Anzeiger: Hacker spielen mit Finanzdaten
- Netzwoche: Erster Berner Open Data Hackday
- Fotos auf Flickr (Oleg Lavrovsky)
- Ankündigung (PDF)
Projects
- Bern Budget 2012
Visualisation of the City of Bern's 2012 budget: net expenditure by directorate and product group, after a New York Times graphic.
- Mys Quartier
Finds the Bern neighbourhood that fits your criteria and shows places of interest on an OpenStreetMap map.
- Smartvote Kandidaten
Visualises the candidates' answers per question from the 2008 Bern elections.
- Classify your politician
Project without a wiki page of its own; only named in the list of results.
- Can I have a swim
Shows the current water temperatures of Swiss rivers, also as a widget for your own website.
- Protect Wildlife (Wildruhezonen)
Concept for an app that warns you when approaching a wildlife protection zone; geodata from Graubünden.
- Bake Open Data
An edible pie chart: carrot cake decorated with food consumption by type from Swiss federal statistics, served as dessert to participants.
- Wear Open Data
T-shirt for every participant showing the permanent population by canton as a bubble chart, sponsored by Netcetera.
Programme
- 13:00
Welcome and intro to open data
- 13:30
Mix-and-match: present ideas (120 seconds each), form teams
- 14:00
Start of the hackathon
- 18:00
Dinner break
- 19:00
Last sprint
- 20:30
End of the hackathon, presentations
- 21:30
Doors closed
Read the original announcement
For the first Bern Open Data Hackday on Friday, 27 April 2012 at the University of Bern, we invite idea and data providers, designers, programmers and everyone else interested to spend half a day developing new open government data apps with data from Bern, free of charge.
There is no fixed theme. So that the day itself can be spent working on project ideas as efficiently as possible, everyone must register via the web form by 15 April 2012. Participants are also invited to share their skills and interests in the Opendata.ch wiki and forum, form groups accordingly and join their own or others' project ideas. Companies and institutions may also form a hackday group. Topics might include visualising the City of Bern's finances, the transport network or energy consumption.
Catering is sponsored by the Bern ICT companies Puzzle, Netcetera and basis06. Members of the media are also welcome to take part in the first Bern hackday, as contributors or as reporters.
How it works
- Register for the Bern hackday at make.opendata.ch/Bern
- Create a user profile in the wiki
- Describe and discuss app ideas in the forum
- Meet and take part at the Bern hackday on 27 April 2012
- Publish your apps and document them in the wiki
At the start of the hackday each idea is presented in 2 minutes. Participants form teams around the ideas and develop the apps together. At the end of the day the results are presented and, if there is interest, developed further after the hackday with the support of the Opendata.ch association.
Host
Sponsor
- basis06
