Episode 10: Gillian Vrooman

Drew and James cover some of the previous events of the week, as well as what is coming for the week of January 25th. The second part of the show, is an interview with Gillian Vrooman, the President Of [Open Data BC](https://www.opendatabc.ca/ https://twitter.com/OpenDataBC).

Gillian is the Director of Communications and Engagement at College of Pharmacists of BC, as well as the President of the Open Data Society of BC. We cover a lot of topics from health care communication, open data in government, hurdles for companies looking to open their data, as well as the status of open data in Vancouver, BC, and the rest of Canada.

Links

• Gillian Vrooman
• Open Data BC @OpenDataBC
• BC Pharmacists @bcpharmacists
• Open Data Bc Meetup
• Pay For Pull
• Bc Dev Exchange
• Bc Dev Exchange Open511 Drive Bc
• Bc Dev Exchange Github
• data.gov.bc.ca
• Knomos
• Bc Laws Api
• Placespeak
• Vancouver Open Data Catalogue
• Surrey City Services
• Open Data Nanaimo Ca
• Open Data Day
• HackerNest Vancouver January Tech Social
• ReactJS Vancouver: React & Flux, React & Falcor
• OpenLate @ OpenDNS - Hack Night!
• Digital Agency Day Happy Hour Tickets
• Random Ramblings on Software Engineering.
• Startup Drinks Vancouver
• Drupal Meetup: Multi-headed Drupal - an alternative
• Learn How they did it: Picatic CEO Jayesh Parmar
• Drupal Sprint Weekend 2016

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Music by Jonatan Liljedahl.