Anyone doing anything states-side in parallel with the festival? // Matt
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Fuster, Mayo <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! Here the last update of the Open Knowledge Festival (Sept. 17th – > 22nd 2012, Helsinki) in case it did not arrive to some people in this list > and/or to ask please to help to spread it. Cheers! Mayo > > OPEN KNOWLEDGE FESTIVAL (September 17th – 22nd, Helsinki) The event of the > year to build a free and open movement/society http://okfn.org/ > > New to OKFestival? We are delighted to invite you to this year’s event in > Helsinki, Finland – a series of hands-on workshops, talks, hackathons, > meetings and sprints organised by a wide range of open knowledge > communities around the globe. OKFestival 2012 combines the themes of our > annual Open Government Data Camp (OGDCamp) ( > http://okfestival.org/open-government-data-camp/) and Open Knowledge > Conference (OKCon) (http://okfestival.org/open-knowledge-conference/) > into a week of action and inspiration organised by the Open Knowledge > Foundation, the Finnish Institute in London, Aalto Media Factory along with > hundreds of Guest Programme Planners. With over 400 tickets already > reserved by participants from more than 40 nations, OKFestival is the one > of the world’s largest open knowledge events to date – and we want you to > join us. > > FESTIVAL PROGRAMMING > > The 2012 theme of OKFestival is Open Knowledge in Action, looking at the > value that can be generated by opening up knowledge, the ecosystems of > organisations that can benefit from this, and the impacts that transparency > can have in our societies. > This year’s schedule (http://okfestival.org/schedule/) is diverse, with > over 13 guest-planned Topic Streams: > > * Open Democracy and Citizen Movements > http://okfestival.org/open-democracy-and-citizen-movements/ > * Transparency and Accountability > http://okfestival.org/transparency-and-accountability/ > * Open Cities http://okfestival.org/opencities/ > * Open Design, Hardware, Manufacturing and Making > http://okfestival.org/open-design/ > * Open Cultural Heritage http://okfestival.org/open-cultural-heritage/ > * Open Development http://okfestival.org/open-development/ > * Open Research and Education > http://okfestival.org/open-research-and-education/ > * Open Geodata http://okfestival.org/open-geodata/ > * Open Source Software http://okfestival.org/open-source-software/ > * Data Journalism and Data Visualization > http://okfestival.org/data-journalism-and-visualisation/ > * Gender and Diversity in Openness > http://okfestival.org/gender-and-diversity/ > * Business and Open Data http://okfestival.org/business-and-data/ > * Open Knowledge and Sustainability > http://okfestival.org/open-knowledge-and-sustainability/ > > Program includes: > * A series of hackathons and coding jams including a Green Hackathon with > CESC, a hackathon wherethe cultural heritage stream teams up with open > science, and an introductory coding jam with RailsGirls Finland. > * A variety of participatory sessions from hands-on open hardware > workshops in Finland’s first FABlab to the world’s first Art of Open Data > Cooking workshop to sessions on the School of Data. > * A set of in-depth meetings on different topics related to openness, from > developer meetups about Open Source software with Finland’s OpenMind > conference, to sessions on the Open Government Partnershipand a new EU > Citizens’ Initiative, to a live broadcast between innovation hubs in > Finland and Africa. > * An increasingly-imminent list of Featured Speakers from the Gapminder > Foundation‘s Hans Rosling to Member of European Parliament Anneli > Jäätteenmäki to the World Bank‘s Carlos Rossel to the Free Software > Foundation‘s Karsten Gerloff to Climate Change Capital‘s James Cameron. > > DATES & ACCOMMODATION > > OKFestival 2012 runs from Monday 17th to Saturday 22nd of September. We > offer both day and week tickets, with week tickets covering all three of > OKFestival’s action-packed Core Conference Days ( > http://okfestival.org/schedule/) from Tuesday 18th September to Thursday > 20th September. A variety of Satellite Events ( > http://okfestival.org/schedule/) are also running before and after the > event, with a summary and debrief day on Friday 21st September. From > Couchsurfing with Finnish locals ( > http://www.couchsurfing.org/activity/view/5IO0U5) to hotels in downtown > Helsinki, there are many affordable travel and accommodation options ( > http://okfestival.org/accommodation/) available to make your stay in > Finland a great one. > > REGISTER TODAY > > Tickets are available online ( > http://okfestival.org/early-bird-okfest-tickets/) - reserve yours now to > join the largest open knowledge crowd of the year in Finland. Tickets are > selling fast and our list of confirmed festival attendees ( > http://okfestival.org/festival-attendees/) continues to grow, with > participants from Jyväskylä to Guyana. > > GET IN TOUCH > > Have questions for our Topic Stream planners or the Core Organising Team? > Want to get involved by proposing a satellite or evening event? Feel free > to contact our Guest Programme Planners via email ( > http://okfestival.org/contact/) and get involvedon Twitter ( > http://twitter.com/okfestival), on our Facebook group ( > https://www.facebook.com/OpenKnowledgeFestival) and on the public Flickr > Pool (http://www.flickr.com/groups/okfest/pool/). We look forward to > meeting you in Helsinki this autumn! > > «·´`·.(*·.¸(`·.¸ ¸.·´)¸.·*).·´`·» > «·´¨*·¸¸« Mayo Fuster Morell ».¸.·*¨`·» > «·´`·.(¸.·´(¸.·* *·.¸)`·.¸).·´`·» > > Research Digital Commons Governance: http://www.onlinecreation.info > > Fellow Berkman center for Internet and Society. Harvard University. > Researcher. 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