I love this list. All of these are so annoying as a user.

I also work at OpenCorporates and work alongside NGOs and investigators on stories as the data we have can be essential in tracking chains of corporate control and expose links to corruption. We have a community of botwriters and researchers who specifically go after datasets that are hard to find/scrape but are valuable e.g. financial licenses, businesses licenses etc. We're on slack if you're interested to see what's happening in our community: http://slack.opencorporates.com/

Great point! This joins a host of other coding bootcamps springing up in places with small (but increasing) tech sector e.g Code school in Kabul, Code for Pakistan etc.

The data is under a share-alike license which means if you're not going to share the results of the whatever you're going to do with the data with the rest of the world. A lot of academics, open data projects, NGOs and journalists use our Open Data API without any problem but ofcourse, we use the profits from selling our data to businesses to support the organisation. We think it's really important an organisation such as OpenCorporates remains sustainable and that's why we have this model.

That's a fair reasoning. I'm just saying that this is not opendata for me. And calling yourself opendata is misleading in my opinion.

^ Could not agree more!

That's what so many said about Manning and look where he is now. Though I'm with you that if this happens, it would be great.

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I know someone who will love this A LOT when it comes to Android! Thanks for sharing.

Cool! I had no idea this existed even though I work in the open data and transparency space.

I love Slack but if you can dish out some money - try Flowdock because you can tag conversations within streams! It's my favourite feature.

I suggest volunteering. I'm quite social but I run a charity and I've noticed a lot of volunteers that are generally shy or introverted become more relaxed and pick up social skills over time as most conversations and interactions with the group are centred around tasks. It's easier to talk and over time, you get more used to trying out new things. Might not work for you but I would definitely recommend that. Also, try that with a small charity rather than a large one.