SODU2023

The weekend

Run over 18th and 19th November 2023, the unconference (an event whose sessions are proposed and run by the attendees each day) clocked up 30 sessions, the notes for 28 of which have been captured and collated in our summary doc.

What did we cover

With thirty sessions we covered a very diverse range of topics: from the discoverability of open data to new tools for mapping; from data journalism to data standards; from the (in)visibility of local authority structures and opacity of decision making to data taxonomies and schemas; and from collaborative community projects to using Large Language Models (LLMs) to analyse and explain Open Data.

The breadth of the subject areas covered, and amount of knowledge exchanged, was testament to the willingness of the participants to share and to be open.

Next Year

Code The City are looking forward to running it all again next year. Meantime, keep up with the conversation and the exchange of ideas and knowledge on our two Slack groups: the main Code The City group which covers our hack weekends, data meet-ups and coding groups; and the dedicated Open Data Scotland one. And sign up for our monthly newsletter which will alert you to new opportunities to network and learn.

See you next year!

Ian, Karen, Steve, Jack, Arrash, Bruce

Code the City

PS since the event Open Data Scotland, in the shape of our Trustees Jack and Karen picked up the award in the Belonging category at the Open UK awards on Monday. It is great to see a project spawned at SODU 2021, nurtured over several of our hack weekends, and sustained by community effort marshalled by Jack and Karen get the recognition that it deserves.