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

Mon Jan 11 11:27:27 UTC 2010

Hi Jonathan,
No I didn't invite any other Danes. I think with Michael we're covered for
now.

best,
Ton
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On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 3:10 AM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>wrote:

> 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
> >
> > -------------------------------------------
> > Interdependent Thoughts
> > Ton Zijlstra
> >
> > ton at tonzijlstra.eu
> > +31-6-34489360
> >
> > http://zylstra.org/blog
> > -------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> > 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
> >> > -------------------------------------------
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > ---------- 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
> >> >
> >> > -------------------------------------------
> >> > Interdependent Thoughts
> >> > 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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