Introduce yourself by commenting on this issue.

[hepplerj]

Comment below to say hello to other contributors and find partners for your work.

Use this template and example to help write your own introduction:

• Your Name: Jason Heppler
• Your GitHub handle: hepplerj
• What brings you to this project: I am an advocate for publicly available data.
• What you would like to work on for this project: I want to connect people who work with publicly available data so they can work together on creating new events, curricula, awareness, and advocacy.

Template:

- **Your Name**: 
- **Your GitHub handle**: 
- **What brings you to this project**: 
- **What you would like to work on for this project**: 

[bleckley]

• Your Name: David Bleckley
• Your GitHub handle: bleckley
• What brings you to this project: I am the Project Manager for DataLumos, a crowd-sourced archive for government data.
• What you would like to work on for this project: I would like to help out wherever needed (I'll be in East Lansing on Friday). I am interested in identifying areas of need (related to endangered data) and collaborating to find solutions--especially ways our work can complement/supplement each other.

[Daniel-Mietchen]

• Your Name: Daniel Mietchen
• Your GitHub handle: Daniel-Mietchen
• What brings you to this project: I am helping with a Mozsprint project (Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools) to map out the landscape of open science tools and infrastructure, with the aim of facilitating collaboration, coordination and other forms of interaction across projects. Our ticket number 1 is about reviewing other Mozsprint projects for potential synergies, both during the sprint but especially in the long run.
• What you would like to work on for this project: Not sure. But I have been following Endangered Data Week last year and gave a talk this year and plan to engage in the future as well.

[hepplerj]

Welcome, @bleckley! I'm eager to find ways we can collaborate with you and DataLumos.

[hepplerj]

Hi @Daniel-Mietchen! I'll pop over and introduce myself as well. Your talk looks fantastic -- maybe we can find a way to include that within the EDW resources for others to reuse/remix?

[bleckley]

Absolutely, @hepplerj! I hope to talk a lot with @brandontlocke tomorrow. Looking forward to working together in any way we can.

[brandontlocke]

Maybe tomorrow @bleckley and I can do a conference call with whoever's interested?

[svmelton]

@brandontlocke I'd be interested!

[brandontlocke]

Your Name: Brandon Locke
Your GitHub handle: brandontlocke
What brings you to this project: I think a lot about the ways that technical skills and digital literacies intersect with citizenship. I also value open scholarship/data/software and gov't transparency, so enduring access to these materials is very important to me.
What you would like to work on for this project: Mostly curricula. Perhaps some advocacy materials.

[svmelton]

• Your Name: Sarah Melton

• Your GitHub handle: svmelton

• What brings you to this project: I am interested in how we can both advocate for government transparency through open data and critique data as a self-evident category.

• What you would like to work on for this project: Educational resources about endangered data. Advocacy materials.

[Daniel-Mietchen]

@hepplerj I'm sure happy with people reusing my talk - it is CC0 for precisely this reason. Some of the images have different licenses though, as indicated next to them.