The previously posted information on an introductory open data briefing from the state and Socrata has been removed, as the state has clarified that this specific session is primarily an internal one aimed at state departments and employees.
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Ryan, is it only going to be tomorrow or will there be more sessions the rest of the week?
Hey, Jerome! There will be a series of Hawaii-focused webinars, and I think Socrata runs a continuous circuit of them for their system generally. I’m not sure if this ‘introductory briefing’ will be repeated, but I’ll check for you!
The open questions now, so to speak, are: Will other countries use it? And to what effect? Here in the U.S., there’s already code sharing between cities. OpenChattanooga , an open data catalog in Tennessee, is using source code from OpenDataPhilly , an open government data platform built in Philadelphia by GIS software company Azavea. By the time “Data.gov in a box” is ready to be deployed, some cities, states and countries might have decided to use that code in the meantime.