Open Data Day, February 22, 2014; 2/1/14

Open Data Day, February 22, 2014:

[Excerpt] "What is this?

Open Data Day is a gathering of citizens in cities around the world to write applications, liberate data, create visualizations and publish analyses using open public data to show support for and encourage the adoption [sic] open data policies by the world's local, regional and national governments...

Librarians

I heard you folks like books and eat catalogs of data for breakfast. You beautiful people are going to scour the earth for interesting data, help the rest of us figure out what’s important, and generally be useful."