[iRail] Community updates 11/2010

[Jan Fabry]

On 26 Nov 2010, at 10:25, Pieter Colpaert wrote:

> Hi Jan,
> 
> Is this conference you're talking about interesting enough for
> technical people? We don't want to be the choir Neelie Kroes talks to.
> If we don't learn anything or can't say anything ourselves I don't
> think it's worth the time. (I would like to meet Neelie Kroes however)

I don't think it will be a technical conference, but the policy makers will be there. The people who decide what information will be released. And you can talk to anyone you want during the coffee breaks of course, they are usually the most productive moments of any conference!

> I will go to the round-table nevertheless and the 15th in the evening
> there is the techMAP Monday. I think there's no problem if you would
> join me. I can ask?

I don't know, the "map" stands for "Marketing, Advertising, PR", and looking at the speakers list, I think it will be too much marketing and not enough content to really excite me. But maybe you can convince me?

Jan

> Pieter
> 
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Jan Fabry <jan.fabry at monkeyman.be> wrote:
>> Hello there,
>> 
>> Also, is anyone going to the "Lift-off towards Open Government" conference? [ http://www.opengov2010.be/ ] The 15th and 16th of December Fedict (federal government) organizes this conference in Brussels, on the 14th Corve (Flemish government) does a pre-conference in Ghent, and on the 18th we have the i-Vlaanderen round-table (Flemish government, invite only) again. I could find no price info, so I assume the conferences are free? It will be a busy month!
>> 
>> Greetings,
>> 
>> Jan Fabry