[epsi-coord] publica as mission meeting

Wed Apr 6 12:30:30 BST 2011

On 06.04.2011, at 12:54, Ton Zijlstra wrote:

> Also I took the liberty of mentioning Republica as an event we are taking part in, in our master sheet. 
> It does mean we need to be writing about this on the platform as well. I will start posting in the coming days. 
> 
> Daniel, if you have additional info that would be useful to work into postings, apart from what I can find on the event website, please let me know.

Ton: wouldn't it make sense to give me (and in other cases Antti as well) access to the platforms cms to enable us to publish ourselves?

Regards
Daniel

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> Ton
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> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Ton Zijlstra <ton.zijlstra at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 'Pointing to epsiplatform.eu' is not the consideration when it comes to Mission Meetings. They're not meant for advertising epsiplatform.eu. We define a mission meeting as (emphasis mine):
> 3.5.1 Mission Meetings: Bringing the PSI story to new places
> 
> In total at twenty-four events core team members will bring the message of PSI re-use to places where that debate can be stimulated with awareness raising.
> 
> Of these 24, 8 events will be supported with providing advice, speakers, contacts, coverage and seed capital, and by allowing the use of the ePSI platform 2.0 brand.
> 
> At the other 16 events we will actively participate to raise awareness with presentations and workshops.
> 
> For these events we will actively seek invitations and will be especially looking to participate in places and Member States where the PSI debate currently is not very well developed.
> 
> These events also offer a valuable opportunity for face to face conversations with local stakeholders at and outside of the event, as well as an opportunity to collect user stories.
> 
> 
> 
> So the question must be: are we there to raise awareness about PSI re-use, and is it a place that needs that awareness raising?
> If you can answer those questions with yes, then let's call it a mission meeting. 
> 
> My thoughts on the question at hand:
> Running an entire track on open data seems a sizable contribution to raising awareness with a wider audience.
> Also Germany is a country where gov certainly can use more citizen generated pressure to get moving, esp as they have a large say in the upcoming PSI Directive review.
> We of course must be somewhat selective, but I would rather have more than the stated 24 mission meetings, so it's not a question if this can be '1 of 24', as 24+ is a much better number :)
> 
> If we can have the re:publica program also actually state that we are supporting them in this by having Daniel there, that would be awesome as well. 
> 
> Does that help Daniel?
> 
> best,
> Ton
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> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Daniel Dietrich <daniel.dietrich at okfn.org> wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I am co-organising a trak on open data and data driven journalism at this years re:publica conference, see
> 
> http://re-publica.de/11/schedule/
> 
> Wouldn't this fit to become a mission meeting? Among others I am on stage and could point to epsiplatform. We have brought together speakers for a rich debate even with presence of the EC in person of Carl-Christian Buhr, who kind of "self-invited" himself ;)
> 
> http://re-publica.de/11/blog/panel/open-data-eu-policies-and-activities/#day13
> 
> Pro: It's happening anyway and doesn't cost us anything.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Daniel
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