Suggested Topics

Suggestions by Wendy Brawer - http://GreenMap.org

• Open calendar for green & social innovation events of all sorts everywhere
• Open Green Map - happy to demo this social mapping platform-in-progress

Suggestions by Gabriel Krause - http://appropedia.org

• Open hardware cell phone manufacturing.
• Open design for parabolic solar collection to sterling engine, electrical energy conversion using commonly available hardware.
• Open design for wind power harnessing w/ common hardware.

-Goodsignal

Suggestions by Andrew Hoppin - http://www.globehoppin.com

• 99 Legislatures IT Wiki: document and share the technology and information management best practices of the 99 State Legislative Bodies around the US; permit evaluation of relative openness, efficiency, etc.
  

Suggestions by John Britton - http://www.johndbritton.com/contact

• Choosing the right open content license
• For Profit Open Publishing - Flat World Knowledge
• Open Hospitality - Couch Surfing, Global Freeloaders, Hospitality Club
• What Motivates Openness

Suggestions by Philip Ashlock from The Open Planning Project - email phil (@) openplans.org / twitter @philipashlock

• A review of nyc.gov citing specific needed improvements for more open data
• Planning for an nyc based open government policy sprint and hackathon
• Data.gov for cities - http://ideas.topplabs.org/wiki/Data.gov_for_Cities
• A Q/A survey web app for candidates and elected officials -  http://ideas.topplabs.org/wiki/Elect...te_survey_site
• A local (or global) Who is my government? lookup - http://ideas.topplabs.org/wiki/Who_i..._government%3F
• Real Time Bus Tracker (currently focused on MTA buses) - http://ideas.topplabs.org/wiki/Real_Time_Bus_Tracker
• A Geo Mobile Issue Tracker to report issues, eg documenting needed improvements in a city - http://ideas.topplabs.org/wiki/Geo-m..._Issue_Tracker

Suggestions by Garin Fons from Open.Michigan - email garin (@) umich.edu / twitter @mrgarin

• Open Educational Resrources - examples here: OERCommons http://www.oercommons.org/
• Legal and Policy aspects of Opening Creative Content - CreativeCommons, Creative Commons Learn
• Software and other sociotechnical tools to assist content creators effectively publish and share Open Content - some examples: dScribe and OERca https://open.umich.edu/wiki/Main_Page
• Student led Open Education initiatives