On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Lucy Chambers <[email protected]> wrote: > @ Jonathan, I think your suggestion is possibly the most plausible in > the short term, and I think we should really be doing it anyway to > pull together all of the activities across the OKF. However, who would > do it is an interesting one) Possible joint task for a Chapter Coord / > Volunteer coord if we bring them online?
Makes a lot of sense! :-) J. > > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Kaitlyn (Kat) Braybrooke > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Agreed with Lucy - definitely a great idea. >> >> Seems like the only question is how to implement it - and while the regional >> groups could be an equally useful place to start, given that they're still a >> bit fledgling and that many of us are (as noted) traveling often and >> therefore not sure how to access the other regional groups or know if >> they're active, I wonder if there is a tool (like a calendar, but more >> collaborative) that everyone could use if they want to engage with other >> open data folk in a city they're visiting. >> >> I'm going to give it more thought now! >> >> | Kat Braybrooke >> | Community Coordinator >> | Open Knowledge Foundation, London UK >> | Engage: http://okfn.org | Tweet: @OKFN, @kat_braybrooke >> >> >> On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Peter Murray-Rust <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Jonathan Gray <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Great idea Lucy. >>> >>> Agreed. Excellent if we can make it work. >>> >>>> >>>> Perhaps one thing we could do is have a regular >>>> round-up of groups, lists, meetups and initiatives? Like a digest of >>>> 'open knowledge community bulletin'? E.g. a monthly post on >>>> blog.okfn.org + okfn-discuss with: >>>> >>>> * an overview of local chapters / groups / lists + planned activities >>>> * a list of upcoming open knowledge / open content / open data related >>>> events >>>> * an overview of OKF working groups and planned (online) meetups and >>>> events >>>> >>> >>> This is along the lines of what I suggested when people asked for ideas >>> for newcomers to OKFN. A regional resource is something most people can >>> relate to very quickly and also something fairly easy to start working on. >>> That way people will get to know each other by discovering each other >>> locally. >>> >>>> >>>> At first this would probably require a fair degree of effort, but if >>>> it was useful to people then it might get easier. Having the OKF >>>> community actively scouting these things out would help. >>>> >>>> For now I guess okfn-discuss is the main channel for 'hey who's in >>>> country X?' type shout outs, and everyone at the OKF can help out in >>>> introducing people to people. We should also have a better overview of >>>> OKF regional lists, which I think Kat is working on? I don't know if >>>> country/city groups might also help, e.g.: >>>> http://okfn.org/groups/open-knowledge-london/ >>>> >>>> J. >>>> >>> I know that some scientists use Dopplr, but AFAIK this is untargetted - >>> you advertise to the whole world. The point is that you don't know who is >>> "out there". I know people who have met others through Dopplr. And there are >>> times when I have been marooned in a hotel bar when I am sure there are >>> people out there. >>> >>> I live most of my life in the open, but for some reason I have been >>> reluctant to give spacetime coordinates. Maybe I should change? For example >>> I am travelling later this year to Madrid, Thailand, Beijing and Singapore. >>> Probably fairly busy in most (but not Thailand). >>> >>> I don't think Google Calendar works. several thousand people will clog it >>> up. It needs geo-coordinates. Does OKF-Dopplr mak sense? >>> >>> P. >>> >>> -- >>> Peter Murray-Rust >>> Reader in Molecular Informatics >>> Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry >>> University of Cambridge >>> CB2 1EW, UK >>> +44-1223-763069 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> okfn-discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> okfn-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss >> >> > > > > -- > Lucy Chambers > Community Coordinator > Open Knowledge Foundation > http://okfn.org/ > Skype: lucyfediachambers > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > -- Jonathan Gray Community Coordinator The Open Knowledge Foundation http://blog.okfn.org http://twitter.com/jwyg http://identi.ca/jwyg _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
