And we’re off. Open Data Camp 3 (Bristol!) is underway. Probably about a third of the attendees are Open Data Camp veterans.

It’s pitching time. Let’s hunt for some themes:

• Women and Open Data – not a women only session, men are welcome to listen.
• Dataopolis – the open data boardgame
• Hardware hacking – getting data from devices

Education and access

• Making data available for community groups
• Make data meaningful through art
• Building data literacy through stories
• Making open data easier
• Undercover open data – taking the covers off

Government data

• DEFRA want to know what they can help with
• Land Registry data – who are – and could – people use it more?
• Citizen participation in open data
• Local government data – from a policy perspective

Earth and beyond

• Turning LIDAR into insights
• Open data from space. Satellites and other Earth observation
• How to map everything – and what not to map
• The best spot for a pint using Lidar and HTMLCanvas
• Using open data to improve highways
• User requirements for a reference platform for Bristol

Developing data

• Connecting linked data
• Opening up business data
• Innovation and open data
• Open data fusion – linking data sets to make something more interested
• Little data – more data as part of natural processes
• Co-create data and licences
• Getting away from the long tail of unused data

Learning and sharing

• Tips and tricks for finding a senior sponsor in your organisation
• Sharing successful cases
• Evaluating the impact of open data across the community
• Lessons learned from local open data
• Measuring social value of open data

Sounds like a bunch of fun – let’s see how the next two days go.