The Office of Public Sector Information will be having a BarCamp around Recommendation 8 from the Power of Information Review on 12 January 2008.

Recommendation 8

“To improve government’s responsiveness to demand for public sector information, by July 2008 OPSI should create a web-based channel to gather and assess requests for publication of public sector information.”

http://barcamp.org/BarCampPOIR8 on *12th January 2008*,
Spey & Ness Rooms, City Inn, 30 John Islip Street, Westminster, London.

From an announcement of the event:

Since beginning to accept requests for re-using PSI through the discussion forum on the OPSI website, we’ve been given some very helpful feedback by users and learnt quite a few lessons about how the eventual service will need to work. The forums have served a useful purpose these few months but are clearly insufficient going forwards.

We’ve opted for a BarCamp format as the most open, participative and democratic way to engage with potential re-users. We’ve a venue arranged and an outline agenda – but really we would like the re-user community to shape the event.

Way cool.

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