News for January 2016
Directors’ Forum in December
- Directors’ Forum is a semi-annual conference for directors in various departments and agencies of the Government of Prince Edward Island (not including Health PEI)
- Opening Remarks on Open Data by Premier MacLaughlan
- A Cook’s Tour of Open Data from a User’s Perspective by Peter Rukavina
- Intro to Open Data Book Club by Michael Easter et al. (Special thanks to Chris Mears, Derek Campbell, Dustin Sparks, Josh Biggley, Mark Wright, Matt Duffy, Ricardo Angel, Sean Whalley for facilitating.)
In The News
- CBC Maritime Noon interview on PEI Landmarks. (This is a light-hearted interview about landmarks, not Open Data per se.)
Coming Up
- International Open Data Day March 5, 2016
- Canadian Open Data Summit 2016 April 28, 2016 in Saint John, NB (just next door!). Recall that CODS 2015 in Ottawa featured a lightning talk by Kitt McGoveran on the Ottawa Open Data Book Club.