[okfn-coord] Fwd: Beyond the Repository Fringe

Thu Jun 18 22:45:43 UTC 2009

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
>
> Is anyone interested in going to Edinburgh in late July for the
> Repository Fringe event to be held at the School of Informatics,
> University of Edinburgh?

I would love to go. By then I'll be in Edinburgh, working for EDINA.
I've not met Stuart Macdonald and don't know how viable it would be
for me to be there in an OKF capacity doing a lightning talk/panel?
I can sound out the EDINA folks about it.
Also happy to offer spare room to anyone who'll be in Edinburgh.

cheers,

jo
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Stuart Macdonald <stuart.macdonald at ed.ac.uk>
> Date: Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 2:36 PM
> Subject: Beyond the Repository Fringe
> To: Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>
>
>
> Jonathan - I'm writing to invite the Open Knowledge Foundation to
> participate in the second Repository Fringe event to be held at the
> School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh on July 30/31. I have
> attached our 'call for participation' which we hope to announce to the
> repository community later today.
>
> Following on from various JISC strands and initiatives it is our aim
> this year for our programme to have an 'open data' flavour and as such
> we'd be particularly interested to hear about CKAN, Open Data Commons,
> your Open Knowledge Definition. I also noted that new to your
> executive group is James Casborn whose biog. mentions that he'll be
> contributing to the Foundation's work on 'an open data grid and on
> open data in science'.
>
> We'd be delighted to have OKN participate in a round table discussion
> or tutorial, or indeed a formal or 'pechu kuchu' presentation.
>
> Feel free to contact me should you require any further information.
>
> Regards
> Stuart Macdonald