[euopendata] Other people we should invite to this list?

Sun Jan 10 02:10:06 UTC 2010

Hi all,

Just wondered if anyone had any other suggestions for other EU open
data people we should invite to this list?

Ton: did you invite anyone else from Denmark in the end?

Best wishes,

Jonathan

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Ton Zijlstra <ton.zijlstra at gmail.com> wrote:
> HI Jonathan, all,
>
> Denmark, yes I am in touch with the people behind digitaliser.dk.
> They're the ITST team (National IT and telecom agency) at the ministry of
> science, technology and innovation. They are organizing a conference on Feb
> 4 around open data in Denmark, aimed at civil servants, which they hired me
> to moderate.
> I originally met them at the Reboot conference in Copenhagen last June.
> Will talk to Cathrine Lippert (my ITST contact) if they're interested in
> joining the list.
>
> Someone we should invite to the list from Denmark is Michael Friis. He's the
> one behind the alternative version of the Danish website for parliament
> (rumour has it Parliament actually thinks his site his better than their own
> one) See http://ourdata.eu/node/19
> His e-mail address friism at gmail.com
>
> best,
>
> Ton
>
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> Interdependent Thoughts
> Ton Zijlstra
>
> ton at tonzijlstra.eu
> +31-6-34489360
>
> http://zylstra.org/blog
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>
> On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> Yes, I've heard from Paris. Will update this list once I've spoken to
>> them. Also I had a really useful conversation with someone in Norway
>> who I will introduce to this list shortly. Hopefully he'll be able to
>> give a quick update on developments there.
>>
>> Also Ton, can you think of anyone we should invite from Denmark who
>> was involved in their open data registry?
>>
>>  http://ckan.net/package/dk-digitaliser-datasets
>>
>> Any other leads from anyone else would be much appreciated.
>>
>> Antti: I wonder if you've had a chance to have a look at those notes
>> that we took? Could you send along the Etherpad link?
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Ton Zijlstra <ton.zijlstra at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > Just mailed this message below to Vitor Domingos in Portugal, as he
>> > mentioned open data initiatives in Portugal. Let's see if we can scout
>> > out
>> > some contacts in .pt.
>> >
>> > Jonathan have you heard anything from the Paris bunch already?
>> >
>> > best,
>> > Ton
>> > -------------------------------------------
>> > Interdependent Thoughts
>> > Ton Zijlstra
>> >
>> > ton at tonzijlstra.eu
>> > +31-6-34489360
>> >
>> > http://zylstra.org/blog
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>> >
>> >
>> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> > From: Ton Zijlstra <ton.zijlstra at gmail.com>
>> > Date: Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 12:57 PM
>> > Subject: Open Data in Portugal?
>> > To: vd at prt.sc
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi Vitor,
>> >
>> > I just saw you tweet about a opendata.pt initiative. This has my
>> > interest,
>> > as I and others from across the EU are trying to build a network of open
>> > data advocates across Europe.
>> > Are you yourself involved with open data? Or can you put me in touch
>> > with
>> > people in Portugal who are?
>> >
>> > Myself, I work in the Netherlands on open data projects, more as a
>> > connector
>> > and community builder, and not on coding. Have been doing some work for
>> > the
>> > Ministry for the Interior here, and also initiated ourdata.eu
>> > Ourdata.eu tries to make examples from across the EU visible:
>> > initiatives to
>> > raise open data awareness, examples of reuse of open data, and data
>> > sources
>> > themselves. Not to build a catalogue of data sources but to make better
>> > visible what is happening across Europe. Lots of things are happening
>> > that
>> > cannot be easily found because of language differences. I don't know how
>> > to
>> > search for open data in Portuguese, and you would probably have
>> > difficulty
>> > finding things in Dutch. But if you already know something exists,
>> > because
>> > you found an english reference to it, and have a URL to start from, you
>> > already know what you are looking at, and you will probably feel more
>> > motivated to dive deeper.
>> >
>> > When it comes to catalogues, CKAN (part of the Open Knowledge
>> > Foundation,
>> > http://www.ckan.net/about) has created a catalogue infrastructure which
>> > is
>> > open to others. Currently the German Open Data Network is building a
>> > German
>> > version, that can interact with the CKAN catalogue. Similar things are
>> > happening in Sweden and Finland (opengov.se, opengov.fi). We would all
>> > love
>> > to start interacting with people in Portugal as well.
>> >
>> > Also I would like to point you to a monthly conference call we hold
>> > around
>> > open data to discuss things as mentioned above. More on that call :
>> > http://wiki.okfn.org/euopendata
>> >
>> > Hope to hear from you, and looking forward to hear more about open data
>> > in
>> > Portugal.
>> >
>> > best,
>> >
>> > Ton
>> >
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>> > Ton Zijlstra
>> >
>> > ton at tonzijlstra.eu
>> > +31-6-34489360
>> >
>> > http://ourdata.eu
>> > http://zylstra.org/blog
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>>
>>
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>>
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