Civic Tech concept meeting for Open Data Day hackathon on the 3rd of March

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Monthly introduction & concept meetup of OK Lab Frankfurt am Main!

This time in preparation of the Open Data Day hackathon on the 3rd of March.

Likely topics for the three desks:
Visualization & Mobile
• Mobile & stationary fine dust/air quality visualization & map concept. Rickshaw times series visualization, d3.js, Vue.js and more.
• Cycle Tracking & Deficiency Reports

Sensors & Makers
• LoRaWAN (Smart City/IoT) use cases, e.g. using it for the DIY fine dust sensor kits that we have
• Further steps regarding https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/frankfurt/ (we might want to deploy their software infrastructure) or even other approaches

Participation & Kommune
• Comprehensive concept for deploying (oxygen?) sensors at schools / workshops. Jugend hackt!
• The cities of Karlsruhe and Ulm definitely got LoRaWAN (Smart City/IoT) starting https://www.ka-news.de/wirtschaft/karlsruhe-innovativ/Karlsruhe-wird-zur-Smart-City-Muelleimer-sollen-kuenftig-selbst-denken;art516981,2177874 with the help of the Public Services so we might need to establish contact with them. Come by if you're willing to engage with them together with us.
• Informationsfreiheitsgesetz

General program:
• Using http://daten.frankfurt.de/ or https://data.deutschebahn.com/ or https://opendata.rmv.de/site/start.html
• Ideation
• Showing work in the field
• Group hangout, working together & networking

The OK Lab Frankfurt am Main (Open Knowledge Lab) meets twice a month meeting to exchange knowledge, to create free data, visualizations and applications and publish analyses. We are coding for Frankfurt am Main! Whether on its own ideas or together with others. We want to share some projects on https://codefor.de/frankfurt.