Karsten's email inspires me to chime in with what has been on my mind since Helsinki. It was a job very well done by the organizing committee. A festival (doesn't feel right calling it a conference; festival is indeed the correct term) that stands out as one of the very few in the past many years that I learned from and also enjoyed thoroughly.
As a new Creative Commons employee, and one attending OKFestival for the first time, I was so heartened at seeing what I kept on calling in mind, "My community, my tribe." It is usually fun though not challenging to hang out with those who agree with you, but this was different -- I found all the different streams I attended both fun *and* challenging. Oh, and please let me know who thought of hosting the event at that Aalto School of Design -- I need to buy that person a beer as recognition for a most inspired decision. The space embodied everything that the event was about, or vice versa. Puneet. On Oct 8, 2012, at 12:57 PM, Kat Braybrooke <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks very much for that, Karsten. Really appreciated you being there, and > it's great to hear you had a good time! We'll be sending out a thank you > email and recap post via the Open Knowledge Foundation later this week > ourselves :) > > Kat > > .. > > > > On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 10:48 PM, Karsten Gerloff <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I just wanted to let you know that I found the Open Knowledge >> Festival in Helsinki really wonderful. Lots of interesting people >> and topics - much more than I could absorb, in fact, and I wish I >> would have had more time there. >> >> Great job, everyone! Keep up the good work. >> >> >> >> Best regards, >> Karsten >> .. -- Puneet Kishor _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
