Hey folks,<br><br>Konobi asked me to let everyone know that for our december meeting we're going to crash the Vancouver Open Data Hackathon next Wednesday at the City Archives:<br><br><a href="https://www.socialtext.net/vandata/index.cgi?open_data_hackathon_december_2009">https://www.socialtext.net/vandata/index.cgi?open_data_hackathon_december_2009</a><br>
<br>There are lots of opportunities for projects that can directly help people here in Vancouver based on Open data and open government. Perl is such a great language for integrating with different feeds and I'd love to see lots of great tools written in Perl.<br>
<br>There will probably be some people with ideas that need hackers, and some existing projects that could use help. I was thinking of working on a crowdsourced tool to analyze election campaign finance data, and I could use people interested in building some visualizations based on the APIs I'm making, and with improving the APIs.<br>
<br>We should be back to a more traditional Van.pm meeting in the new year.<br><br>Hope to see some of you at the hackathon,<br>Luke<br>