[epsi-coord] Can we give some of our seed money to this?

Wed Apr 6 10:56:11 BST 2011

Ok, I have e-mailed Juan with the request to ok doing this.
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On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Marc de Vries <info at devriesmarc.nl> wrote:

> Good idea
>
> Met hartelijke groet,
> Kind regards,
> Marc de Vries
>
> Op 5 apr. 2011 om 16:22 heeft Ton Zijlstra <ton.zijlstra at gmail.com> het
> volgende geschreven:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Today I met up in Copenhagen with Brigitte Alfter ( <http://wobbing.eu>
> wobbing.eu) and Nils Mulvad ( <http://www.kaasogmulvad.dk/>
> http://www.kaasogmulvad.dk/), both active data journalists.
> May 5-7th they are organizing a data journalists meet-up in Brussels.
>
> I plan to go there for one of those three days. Brigitte will be guest
> blogging on <http://epsiplatform.eu>epsiplatform.eu on data journalism
> issues.
>
> They are still seeking financial support to bring journalists from Eastern
> Europe to this event, and they asked me if <http://epsiplatform.eu>
> epsiplatform.eu is willing to spend a bit of money on that.
> Given that 1) we have been asked by the Commission to explicitly make sure
> we make data journalists more visible, and engage with them 2) we have some
> seed money to help 8 events be successful (total budget 4000 Euro), I would
> be in favor of giving them a couple of hundred Euro to be able to bring some
> eastern European journalist who cannot pay his/her own way.
>
> Of course we need permission for it from Juan Pelegrin as well. But I
> wanted to hear your thoughts if you are ok with putting this question to
> Juan.
> What do you think?
>
> best,
>
> Ton
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