Monday
Work on PLAY Pilots and preparations for Urbanode (actually all week long). Some development on aguascalientes.
Tuesday
Meeting with Amsterdams UITbureau. They are doing some very cool things to promote the city.
Got the business card comps by Bureau Pony which are going to be utterly smashing.
Did a big Urbanode test with James and Peter. Got everything back up and running and talking with each other. Also got the mobile version to work with something of a workaround.
Then worked deep into the night for a release of querétaro.
Wednesday
Did a demo of Urbanode for Kennisland at Melkweg with everything working at base level. An incredible refutation of Murhpy’s Law.
Then went out to a strategic dinner with Hubbub after congratulating Sjoerd Wennekes with his MBA (!).
I could use some interns for Monster Swell. There’s more than enough work to be done in programming, cartography, journalism, writing, design and assorted. If you think you qualify for an internship send me a sample of your solid work and have your people contact my people.
Thursday
Coffee with Johnny Wonder. A bunch more work on PLAY Pilots: Bandjesland and preparations for presenting at Open Innovation Festival.
Friday
Gave my presentation for Open Innovation Festival at the plenary meeting room in City Hall. That was fun.
Had lunch with front-end superstar Kilian Valkhof with some more than decent coffee.
End of the afternoon I gave a brown bag presentation at Adaptive Path Amsterdam. It was a more informal and updated version of my Civic Duty in a Hyper-Connected World.
Saturday
Saturday we had Open Data Day at @ouroffice. Turnout was not that large due to a snow storm and Sinterklaas, but we did an in-depth analysis of a soon to be opened dataset.
The rest of the weekend I played around with installing OpenCV but could not manage to get the python bindings to install on my OS X so I gave up on that1, the Java Processing library also flaked out.
- I’ve spent more than enough time in my life chasing down C++ library and linkage errors. ↩