Summit 2014: The Public Knowledge Workshop - from a script scraping knesset votes to vibrant community of Israeli open-{source,gov,knowledge} projects / Ofri Raviv

Open Knesset started as a script that downloaded votes information from the knesset website. It later turned into a more complicated website that helps people monitor and understand what is going on in the Knesset. As a part of the process we founded The Public Knowledge Workshop - an NGO that helps open source projects aimed at advancing public knowledge and increasing public participation in the government. It currently supports over 10 projects, has over 100 regularly active volunteers, hosts developer training classes and more. I'll talk about our main challenges today, and about how you can help and even found your own project with the help of Hasadna. MP3