Wikimedia District of Columbia

&

Sunlight Labs

invite you to

Wikidata & Global Open Data

a roundtable discussion 

 Panel Discussion With

Josh Tauberer

Creator of GovTrack.us and author of Open Government Data: the Book

Andrew Pendleton

Programmer at the Sunlight Foundation

Katie Filbert

Wikidata programmer at Wikimedia Deutschland

Panel followed by

Wikidata Brainstorming Session

June 21, 2012

6:00 PM

Space is limited. RSVP requested. 

Sunlight Foundation Offices

1818 N Street NW

Washington, DC

Wikimedia Deutschland, the official regional chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation in Germany, is currently developing the latest Wikimedia project, Wikidata, a revolutionary new free knowledge base about the world that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike, which will provide data in all 280+ languages of the Wikimedia projects, and which will allow for central access to data. The Wikidata development team will be on hand during the international Wikimania 2012 conference at George Washington University this July. In order to understand Wikidata and its potential role in the global open data movement, Wikimedia District of Columbia and Sunlight Labs is holding this roundtable discussion event featuring a panel discussion and brainstorming session to discuss global open data and to understand what Wikidata is and is not as it develops. Our goal is to make relevant suggestions and recommendations from the Open Data community to the Wikidata development team that will help make this project a success following launch and implementation. 

About the Panelists:

Josh Tauberer (@JoshData, @govtrack) is a civic hacker, entrepreneur, and writer based in Washington, DC. Josh is the proprietor of Civic Impulse, LLC out of which he runs GovTrack.us, an open government project. Josh is also the author of Open Government Data: The Book (2012) and a developer “At Large” for LARSA, Inc., a structural engineering software company that makes sure bridges don’t collapse. 

Andrew Pendleton (@sunlightlabs) is a programmer at the Sunlight Foundation, where he works on making government data more accessible. Hailing from Alaska, Andrew has spent several years in DC, and did contract web development for a variety of nonprofit organizations prior to coming to Sunlight. When not writing code, Andrew likes to bake, and dabbles with the cello and piano.

Katie Filbert (@filbertkm) is part of the Wikidata development team at Wikimedia Deutschland and a Board of Directors member at Wikimedia DC.  She has been involved with Wikipedia since 2004 and has contributed to OpenStreetMap since 2008.