 Je ne sais pas si il faut que je lance mes verres là-dedans, mais c'est pas du chose. Je me suis dit ça, je me suis dit. Ça fait vraiment longtemps que je ne l'ai pas voulu à Montréal tout le temps. Je pense que ça fait plus que 1 an, 1 000, 2 ans. Je suis très content d'être de retour. Je vais vous parler ce soir de Workout. Je suis content de voir que l'expression est au mode plus austère et de plus en plus répandue. Workout, Montréal, qui est-ce que tu es déjà entendu parler de Workout? Ok, j'ai juste un minute. Work camps existent depuis plusieurs années. Le premier work camp où j'ai eu la chance d'aller, c'était en 2008 chez Google. C'est organisé par les gens, moi j'appelle ça les géocurieux. Donc tous les gens qui sont intéressés par les technologies autour de la cartographie de la localisation. Si vous connaissez l'expression d'un camp, on n'est pas obligés de faire du campaign en work camp, mais celui-là en 2008, il y avait des temps de Google avec I'm feeling lucky on the side. Comment ça marche un work camp? C'est un open space. Donc c'est vraiment un événement qui est fait par les gens qui sont présents. Quand on commence la journée, on fait une grosse grille sur le mur et avec des post-it, les gens vont présenter les sujets qui veulent parler dans la journée. Donc ça peut être très, très diversifié à un work camp. Par exemple, il y a beaucoup de package open source qui sont autour de la géographie comme MapNIC, comme les gens qui font push ID, crisis mapping, les gens d'OpenStreakMap. Donc il y a plein de project open source, puis il y a plein de package commerciaux aussi qui ont des paroles des développeurs. Donc c'est pour ça qu'on voit déjà comme Google, Google, GOO. Bien sûr, si on fait un work camp, il faut faire une map de la conférence. Ceci est le problème que je suggère que j'avais proposé en 2008, c'était Start 1 in your city. C'est-à-dire faire un work camp. L'idée c'était d'en partir un. Bien entendu, vu que je l'ai proposé, j'ai été obligé de le faire. Donc j'ai fait le premier work camp en 2009 à Montréal. Merci à We Black Machine pour regarder les archives de mon vieux wiki qui étaient postées. Cette année, ce qui est le fun, c'est qu'on le fait en collaboration encore de fois avec la conférence géomatique qui est une conférence plus formelle des géographies avec plein de gens du gouvernement, des vendeurs aussi. Et puis on le fait aussi avec OSGO qui est l'organisation de géomatiques open source au Québec, OSGO Québec. À la fin de la fois, on était peut-être comme 12, 15 personnes. Macto était là. Il y avait une couple que vous connaissez peut-être Pierre-Luc qui était dans Montréal, puis donc c'est pas mal, Simon, Simon-Laure. Et puis, pour donner une idée des sujets qu'on avait présentés, on a parlé de mettre des plazes dans les activités sur, ça c'était Evan Podromou qui parlait de StatusNet, Augmented Reality, Geospatial Business Intelligence, GIS in the Cloud, etc. Et puis, bien ça ressemble à son work camp. Ça peut ressembler à ça, des fois, il y a des sujets qui sont plutôt sérieux dans une petite salle. C'est très courant aussi dans un work camp de séparer en plusieurs craques. Donc on peut avoir 25 personnes. Ici, il y a 3 personnes qui ont vraiment envie de parler de comment on fait du rendering de tile avec ma technique. Ils vont parler ensemble, c'est bien qu'avec que c'est trop long parle puis que les autres trouvent qu'ils ont hâte que le code soit réussi pour plus de sujets. Un autre sujet. Cette année, quand je suis allé au work camp qui était à Stanford cette année, on parle beaucoup de geo puis de médias sociaux. Donc moi, j'ai animé une craque sur Twitter geo. Donc comment travaille la geolocalisation dans Twitter? Avec un astrayin vraiment sympathique de Transmap qui a fait un mapping. Comment faire du mapping des tendances? Ce qui est cool aussi à work camp, c'est que c'est une place pour faire des hacks. Il y a plein de hacks extérieurs. Si on a la chance d'avoir un espace, c'est des gens qui faisaient de la cartographie aérienne avec des ballons. Il y a plusieurs... Ça a pris comme une heure ou deux pour trouver comment lancer un ballon en basse altitude avec des string shots. Après qu'on a trouvé comment faire ça, on a pris des photos et puis il y avait des gens qui travaillent sur des logiciels open source pour faire le stitching automatique les différentes tales. Donc ça permet de faire du mapping sans avoir des satellites nécessairement. Dernier truc que je veux parler, ce qui est cool aussi, c'est de faire des lightning talks. Donc on prend des cinq minutes, on va prendre une période où tout le monde est ensemble puis là on va faire des lightning talks. Les gens vont parler soit d'un projet sur lequel ils travaillent ou soit un projet sur lequel ils aimeraient travailler pour trouver des gens pour contribuer. Il y a souvent des hacks day ou des hacks night avec les work camps. On n'en a pas organisé puisque c'est fait longtemps qu'on n'avait pas fait un moral mais je pense que si la tradition prend, j'aimerais bien que l'année prochaine on puisse faire une session de hacking autour des données géographiques. Bien entendu, il y a toujours de la bière après un work camp comme après le Montréal-Pitaux. Donc si vous voulez vous inscrire, vous pouvez aller sur www.workcamp.ca ou sur la page Eventbrite, c'est gratuit. C'est le 11 octobre, dans l'après-midi, il y a passé un 5 à 7 au Benelux et le lendemain il y a la conférence géomatique qu'il y a de 2000 ans. Des questions? Merci. Deux prochaines, grand mieux, présentateurs, vont être Michael Langsner et Jonathan Brown qui vont nous parler de Michael Langsner. Our next two glorious presenters are Michael Langsner and Jonathan Brown on, Michael Langsner. I'm going to speak to him. His name is Brian, Jonathan Brown. Goch. No, you do, happy much, our friends. And what we're going to tell you about is Montréal Louvre. It's an initiative to get the city of Montréal to pass an open data policy. And then at the end we're going to tell you about where things are at with the city and our discussions with the city in terms of the progress of that. Our two of the people on the team, four of us were involved in starting it and working on it a lot. And Sebastien Paquet is one of them, you guys probably are familiar with that. Not Paquet, you guys also might know him. So Sampia and Jean Noé. He's going to speak more than me. So I'm lucky enough to be a business partner with the founders of Yannick and Nicolas. So I know Montréal Python, you guys are going to go through a post break up period of Yannick leaving. And we can talk about that and share that. Oh yeah, I'm also a background, I'm also a co-founder of IlSanPhil. So my name is Jonathan and we're trying to give you a share time. Oh! Ok, we've just used up 2 minutes for our time. So we're going to quickly talk to you what is open data, what's going on in Montréal, what's going on across the country and how can you as Python developers and really smart people get involved and help improve not only Montréal but all of Canada and beyond. So who's familiar with open data? Just raise your hands. Alright, let's talk about 2 thirds of the room. So quickly, I'm going to do this in English unless there's opposition, but... So first thing, non proprietary formats. I'll do this really quickly. Michael Mully was speaking after us, we'll probably touch on this as well. So, open formats, whether they're XML, CSVs or others. A license, a license that allows for reuse of the information for both commercial and non-commercial purposes. The license allows you to create, to produce more works, to adapt the information, match it up with other data sets, add your own data, and ideally to put absolutely no restrictions on that. So no attribution, we won't get down into the details, but this is like the perfect license that we're hoping Montréal will adopt. So far the UK government and the BC government are probably the two best licenses that are being used by governments. To have a centralized portal, so Montréal Aware School, we started in August 2010, and our explicit goal is having open data policy and portal for the city of Montréal. Portal would have all the data sets that produce by the city of Montréal move around from one part of the site to the other. And that's all the data sets that are not private or involve security, problematic really in any way. Exactly. So we're not asking for change in the privacy law, it's really just data that could already be public to make it public in an open forum. In Canada specifically, it started at the municipal level, open data in different countries, different situations. First city in Canada to do is DynamoBC 2008 followed by Vancouver, Toronto. We're up to 10 or 11 cities in Canada that have a formal open data policy. There's no city in Quebec that has an open data policy. And Montréal will be the first one. And the rumors are that we'll have something this fall. We'll have an open data portal and policy this fall with an initial set of data sets. And obviously over time they'll be adding data sets. Just a quick map of what's happened in Canada so far. Just jump in anytime. So So why are we doing this? I mean Montréal has a ton of data everything from the dinégement to your budget to you know, coffee rink status to restaurant inspections to road construction. There's no shortage of data. Right now a vast majority of it's locked up, hard to reach. And really the reason we want to get this out of the cities proprietary cobalt databases is we can improve the quality of life for all Montrealers. We all love to enjoy the city and if you have access to the data we believe you'll take advantage of the services the city offers and help improve the city. This is our website Montréal.org. We have a lot of information if you want to keep track of us. We're on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn. We have an email newsletter so we're not hard to find. From the start it was a citizens initiative I think you might have mentioned it at the beginning a citizens initiative basically means we have no legal status we're really just four guys that were fed up with the situation in Montreal we saw what was happening across Canada and around the world and we said for Montreal just so many developers, so many students so many really bright creative people why isn't this happening here and we put this group together in August and from the start we decided to get a collaborative approach for the city. We didn't want to be avec des pétitions de la mairie just asking for stuff give us, give us, give us, it's ours we really tried to get a collaborative approach reaching out to people inside the city administration that were already working on this issue for many years but it hit administrative roadblocks and by demonstrating to the higher ups in the city both political and administrative that the citizens wanted this and were ready to work with the city but we were able to kind of get through some of those roadblocks that the internal people have been facing for many years and that's something that we were prepared to be more aggressive but we decided to start with the collaborative approach and it worked out very well so far and one of the first things we did was have a public meeting stay on public so we launched on August 8th, 2010 and on August 23rd, 2010 we had our first public meeting where about 75, 60 to 75 people came these were functionnaires, developers regular citizens designers and they came and we met and we really got a better understanding of the situation in Montreal we've had two other public meetings since, as well as two hackathons this has led to a lot of press we've been covering basically every press outlet in the province and in Montreal we've worked a lot of developers over the last year to build different apps we're going to show you very soon and these apps, collectively along with our own site have gotten over 125,000 views in the past year nearly a million page views with about 780 Twitter followers 567 Facebook our cloud score is really high we're very proud of that all the developers that made those apps were happy to promote open data on those applications so there wasn't a chance for use of the applications before we're going to have another one this fall we'll be announcing the date shortly the second one was at the Norman House for those of you who aren't familiar with it it's a fantastic space on Sherbrooke and Clark for startups and for the tech community to really collaborate around projects our second hackathon was there right at the opening of the Norman House last February open data sorry I'm talking really quick we don't have much time we don't have any numbers or non data people it's a bit of a nebulous idea a lot of the people of the city especially administrative and political data who cares about a table of snow clearing information so to show the value of this information to the city we really want to be concrete and that starts by asking questions then taking a look what is city doing what are other cities doing what are developers in the city doing how can we improve on what's been done how can we get a solution noticed because if we build the greatest web app in the world around city data but nobody uses it it might as well have never created it how do we recruit more people to come to our hackathons build more apps and push this on the city's desk and then obviously iterate for a year and I think we've done a fair amount here are a few questions that I'll go through with the actual apps behind them so it's which restaurants are clean which hopperings are open where is their road construction everywhere it's not an acceptable plan so you need more credibility how do you balance the budget and what are my elected officials doing with my money with their time with our time first one which restaurants are clean so the city of Montreal publishes fines that are given to restaurants and restaurants this is in contrast to other cities which actually publish not just the fines they also publish when an inspection happens and if the restaurant passes or gets a warning or fails in Montreal and Quebec we publish our fines so that's not really an open data problem that's actually an access to information problem which goes beyond open data we won't dive into but the fines are online on the city's website and you can look at one month at a time in a nice little table html table on a hidden page it's really hard to find so you can imagine how many people actually use this information so what we did or what we did in Montreal was we worked with developers to get the data in a more usable format so this is done by a developer by the name of Jeff Wallace who used to work at the evolving web and now he moved to Vancouver but basically we scraped html tables put them in our database which is open we have an API for the data that we've scraped so you guys can build, iterate on it build an iPhone version wherever you want click on these they expand you can get down to the actual restaurant level you have standard stuff the latest clients and one thing that's interesting is this site, because it's properly formatted it's properly built when you type in a restaurant name in Google the fines come up often higher than the actual restaurant not in Flash not in Flash so yeah a bunch of features but one guy in the states they did a similar app where if you check in with Foursquare it'll actually send you an alert if you want that's the kind of stuff that we would like to add to these apps but this is all volunteer work sorry I've already mentioned all these apps that we're showing you today with exception of one have been volunteer work so obviously we have lots of great ideas for volunteers the next one sorry okay next one, hockey rinks for those of you who play hockey there's hockey rinks outside the city it's in a PDF that has to be scraped with code like this obviously you know PDFs are not the most pleasant things to scrape this is the original PDF we basically scrape it put it into a database there's an API on that data as well all of these sites which were featured on the front page all the papers the most recent one was started our hackathon in February at the road construction come back basically it would be great, not substantial but the promise to come back where's the road construction type of road construction etc Stéphane, un petit coin un petit coin sorry in less than a month we've had over 45,000 people on the site you got it all from the minister yeah, and he flipped the privilege of talking to Mr. Ahmed the previous so this has been up it's come back in creation much all of creation was cool obviously you don't care what kind of street you're driving on you care about whether there's road construction I sent you alerts punching your trajectory and I sent you alerts this is the only one that was paid for it was paid for by the Plateau et pour those of you who don't know it's budgetplateau.com you've got about 2 weeks left to submit your budget if you live in the plateau it's an interactive budget you have to balance it to submit it it plays 2 roles it educates the population about the financial constraints and it empowers you you think you're so smart balance the budget you're so smart jump over this this is our latest app it's not out yet so we're trying to aggregate data around municipal elections it's only about 35% participation rate we think if you have a better idea of what your officials are doing you might be more inclined to participate there's html information there's pdf, twitter feeds, facebook etc we're trying to aggregate all this information into one easy to use page and post it to tell you who you're you're a concierge James McKinney he's talking about he's talking about james McKinney it's not more about we're not taking responsibility james has started the latest hackathon and we hope we can finish it this fall volunteer work time so you've got information, twitter feeds if they've mentioned the press using google's news they're bio do they go to meetings if so, what are they saying all the meetings are pdf some stats, quickly zone com 40,000 all 17,000 only applicable for wealth restau net 66,000 page views we've had about 500 budgets submitted 100,000 citizens including kids so it gives you an idea of the success zone com zone com front page the gazette jepet tour so that's the other advantages james McKinney, jef walis titan idwam they're all getting a lot of press for their very hard work i think we'll probably stop it there just because of time constraints 2 avs, emitters air missions prime we can't do this in Montreal we'll skip over the rest sorry I talked too long how can you help so there's 4 minutes left you want to take questions if you have questions, you're really great but just can you put it back on the point so just the one message I want to leave off with the kind of work that Sylvain does and the kind of work that John has been leading a lot more than a lot of heavy lifting on the project and the work that Yanik, I know Yanik most out of the python organizers that work is taking the knowledge and skills that you have and then using the soft skills around them to really help out in whatever way you're looking for it and so you guys have something wonderful here on Montreal and there's already people that are going to make sure it continues but that's a great great accomplishment for more than that it's really been developed for people that care about open data that have what we didn't share is where the city is at now the city has basically told us that they're going to create an open data policy and they're going to launch a portal in the fall we've talked with senior officials on this we've talked with lots of bureaucrats and it's because of us because of people, not us, the four of us because people have come to our meetings and created these applications and Ilsonville is a similar example people having a railing cock so I wanted to share if you do have responsibility it's kind of a spider-man with great skills but there is an opportunity to use the skills that we have to impact our local environment and there's a really good example too Ilsonville yep for sure for any questions hopefully there's questions I was going to say, I know the geodata is something more and more people are talking about and I was at the Co-Férents des Justisateurs which is one of the largest purveyors of closed format geodata out there and the Ville-Sélande actually presented the interface that they're launching for all of their data together are you worried that some of the larger municipalities they might be trying to get on to the same train might be a little stubborn when it comes to these things you know, capital on to this why should we be sharing this you mean that the municipalities are trying to sell their data oh no, they just spent their own money to set up their own interface for a lot of these things so they're saying well we already set up our interface and then you know, you can leave here and say well why do we want to share this you know in another format Quebec City's opening has no beginning group that's going to be promoting that and they've already talked to the officials there but do you mean that cities are developing like web apps, I think like that yeah I mean, we can't change the government overnight our message we're trying to convey is that we think governments should really be concerned with publishing high quality data and potentially subsidizing