[Fwd: Re: [okfn-discuss] open knowledge event this autumn: proposal]

Tue Jul 11 11:20:24 UTC 2006

And some more requests:

- Can it be somewhere with a bar
- Not take itself too seriously
- Have nice weather :)

More radically, maybe you could ban wifi and laptops as well,
encourage people to talk more. 

Also, for the mySociety stream I'd like to get a couple of people who
use our stuff. For example, invite Richard Pope (who does work with
Love Music Hate Racism using our tools, and with his
www.pledgebank.com/protest pledge)

Francis

On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 12:11:52PM +0100, Rufus Pollock wrote:
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [okfn-discuss] open knowledge event this autumn: proposal
> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:04:35 +0100
> From: Francis Irving
> To: Rufus Pollock
> CC: Sam Smith, Tom Steinberg
> 
> Well, I just asked Chris and he was up for talking. And I will happily
> too. So that's enough to be going on with.  Sure pencil it in, and
> tell the list. Fix the date as soon as you can so we can get it
> in our diaries.
> 
> Tom, copied to you FYI. We're having a mySociety stream at OKFN's
> conference thing in Sept/Oct.
> 
> Francis
> 
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 11:45:41AM +0100, Rufus Pollock wrote:
> >Francis Irving wrote:
> >>Hi Rufus,
> >>
> >>Had a chat to Sam, one of our volunteers who sometimes does conference
> >>organising (this message CC'ed to him). He said:
> >
> >I know Sam from past events and Creative Archive stuff ...
> >
> >>"(00:32:32) sams: we could organise a stream in the event - that
> >>wouldn't be hard. you for half an hour, matthew for half an hour, plus
> >>half an hour discussions. Tom opens with a short thing and chairs;
> >>chris does half an hour after lunch with half an hour discussion. then
> >>one or two other speakers who do stuff mysocietyish at 20 minutes
> >>each.
> >>(00:32:38) sams: that's a mysociety stream in an event."
> >>
> >>What do you reckon?
> >
> >That sounds great. From past experience I've found that shorter talks 
> >with more Q&A tend to work better but those are details to be hammered 
> >out later.
> >
> >If you guys are happy I'll pencil this in as a civic info panel 
> >organized by mysociety. Dates are looking to be one of the weekends at 
> >the start of October (either w/e of 30th sept/1st oct or following w/e). 
> >We should have this confirmed along with a space in the next few weeks.
> >
> >~rufus
> >
> >PS: can I forward this info to okfn-discuss?
> >
> >
> 
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