This weekend (October 3rd and 4th) will happen the first “Transparência HackDay” (”Transparency HackDay” in english), a free and open hacking event with focus on bringing together hackers, activists, managers and people with ideas to make government information/public data more accessible for everyone using and writing web tools.

I’m attending and one of my ideas is to hack CET (Companhia de Engenharia de Tráfego / Traffic Engineering Company) data and make them available. The idea is to improve a crawler I wrote (in python ) that downloads and stores data about the traffic in São Paulo every 30 minutes from the “traffic now” CET website (as they don’t store it [or at least don't provide anything]).

More information about the HackDay (in portuguese):
http://www.slideshare.net/esferamobi/transparencia-hackday-proposta

This month we will meet to watch/present some lightning talks and to talk about our participation at the Fórum Internacional de Software Livre (FISL 10).

The meeting will be hold at the SP HackLab, May 23. More details (in pt-br): GruPy-SP wiki.

See you there

This time our meeting will be held at Universidade de São Paulo IME (Instituto de Matemática e Estatística) thanks to RBP and the CCSL (Free Software Competence Centre) =)

Other Python User Groups from Brazil are also meeting to work together, check the wikipage for the PythonBugDay to know if there will be a meeting near you (or you can work from your home sweet home).