iRail Summer of code

Today

A lot of companies are opening their data

Soon

A non-profit organization?

No return on investment? No business model?

Are you going to put a photograph of your head in the banner of iRail.be and ask for donations?

iRail as an independent living lab

pre-businessplan-projects

The living labthe idea-loop

July 2011

iRail Summer of code (iSoc)

A coding event

● 1 month of fulltime coding● Projects with public data● Pollination

● Tech-support for every project● No double work● People exchange ideas

● We organize workshops

Sponsors

● iSoc sponsors● Zeropoint.IT● Xplore+● «You»

● You get● Logo visibility on SummerOfCode.be● Visibility on workshops● Visibility in the project's about

Investors/promoters

● Project ideas● The DataTank – A generic REST API● a “Megabike” for traindelays● Visualizations for commuters● «Your project-idea»

● Why should you invest?● Last-year engineering students● Cheap & well-done● If not now, when will you do this project?

Spare words not used in this presentation, but therefore not less relevant:

Innovation, essential, cloud computing, federated, distributed, semantic, social, open data, scalable,

durable...

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