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- lucy
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redirect_from: /2012/06/OKFest-announce/
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title: Budget Cycle Monitoring Hackday at OKFest
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---
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**Often, the only way to check whether governments are releasing financial documents, is retroactively. But what if it were possible to receive alerts and check up against internationally recognised best-practice guidelines as to when the government in your country should be releasing key budget documents?**
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At present, the only way to find out when to expect a document to be released in a given country is to trawl the legislation of a country and find references to legally mandated release dates, but there may be another way...
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At this year's [Open Knowledge Festival](http://okfestival.org/) in Helsinki, there will be a 'Budget Cycle Monitoring Hackday' - to build a prototype of a calendar to attempt to fix exactly this type of problem.
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<img alt="" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8163/7374929594_287879a931_z.jpg" title="OKFest planning" class="alignnone" width="640" height="480" />
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## Who is it for?
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We figure journalists and researchers need fiscal data as soon as it is released. NGO's monitoring budget practices need to have a way to check when budget documents are released. We hope these groups and more would benefit from the calendar and notification services.
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## About the Hackday
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**Mission:** To align a calendar of internationally-recognised best practice guidelines for publication of key budget documents with calendars of the fiscal year in different countries and build services which can relate to this. Possible features include:
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1. The ability to send out notifications to journalists, CSOs, budget monitoring orgs
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at the last acceptable date for the docs to be published to check whether they are available.
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2. Integrating with FOI request services to allow organisations to have a mechanism to request budget documents directly. For example, auto-generated FOI letters processed through services such as [Alaveteli](http://www.alaveteli.org/).
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## How to join
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Simply [sign up for a ticket for OKFestival](http://okfestival.org/tickets-and-bursaries/), bring a computer and join us on the day.
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Discussions will be ongoing about what features to include, via the [mailing list](http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/openspending) - if you know someone who would benefit from this project, we'd love to hear from you!
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