[iRail] Fwd: OKFestival updates & travel bursaries

Sat Jul 21 12:52:17 UTC 2012

Hi all,

Official Open Transport Track programme for September as a draft ↓↓.

You may also apply for a bursary by OKFN.

Kind regards,

Pieter

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Subject: 	[Open-transport] OKFest updates & travel bursaries
Date: 	Sat, 21 Jul 2012 14:37:36 +0200
From: 	Daniel Dietrich <daniel.dietrich at okfn.org>
To: 	open-transport <open-transport at lists.okfn.org>
CC: 	transitdevelopers-de at lists.okfn.org,
open-data-nahverkehr at lists.okfn.org

Dear all,

as some of you might be aware, members of this working group have been
putting together an *PSI Sectorial Meeting on Transport Data and the
Open Transport Track at the Open Knowledge Festival,  17-22 September
2012 in Helsinki, Finland.* http://okfestival.org/. More information,
see below.

I quickly wanted to let you know that the last round of travel bursaries
for the OKFestival has been announced. If you want to come to Helsinki,
do apply! More information, see below.

All the best
Daniel

*
*

*Invitation to join the PSI Sectorial Meeting on Transport Data and the
Open Transport Track at the Open Knowledge Festival,  17-22 September
2012 in Helsinki, Finland.*
*
*
Part I. PSI Sectorial Meeting: A round table with key transport data
stakeholders
Part II. Series of presentations, talks and plenary discussions on open
transport data
Part III. Hands-on! Building the emerging open transport data re-use
community

*# PART I : Monday 17th September, 13:00 - 17:30

PSI Sectorial Meeting: A round table with key transport data stakeholders*

The PSI Sectorial Workshop “Transport Data – fuelling future mobility
and smart cities” will be held on Monday 17 September 2012, in Helsinki,
pulling together around 20 key stakeholders from across Europe,
including national and European policy makers, public sector
dataholders, industry representatives and the emerging open transport
data re-user community. We would start in the afternoon at 13.00,
allowing people to arrive in the morning, and finish around 17.30,
obviously inviting you to stay on for dinner.

The basic aim of the Workshop is to:

- bring in dialogue the EC with national Open Data policy makers and
stakeholders.
- bring new emerging re-users to the table as well as existing players.
- to get on board (semi) public sector board transport data holders,
demonstrating the richness of sources and the impact Open Data may have
on their organisations and subsequent value chain.
- identify the transport data specific issues, that are hampering the
free flow of the Open Data across Europe, these are data specific and
market specific.

The Workshop, is really a “Work Shop”: after a 30 minutes session of 3
short presentations (representing public data holders, re-users and
policy makers), we will split up in 4 small working groups. Each working
group will have a specific mission to be solved and to be reported upon
in the last session of the day. On the fly, we will try to draw up
the */Transport Data Helsinki Declaration/*, a 1 pager, holding
recommendations on data re-use policy and practice, which will be widely
distributed and also be fed into the relevant sessions of the OKF
Festival in the days to come.

*# PART II : Tuesday, 18th September

Series of presentations, talks and plenary discussions on open transport
data
*
A series of presentations, talks, plenary discussions in the main
OKFestival program to share and feedback the outcomes of the discussion
from the PSI sectorial workshop to the broader OKFest audience.

Talks 11:30 - 13:00
1. Keynote (30min)
2. Introducing the "Transport Data Helsinki Declaration" from PSI
sectorial workshop (30min)
3. User-experience: social, mobile, integrated, commuting vs. travelling
(30min)

Talks 14:00 - 15:30
4. Open transport data, the technical side (standards,
static/dynamic/real-time...) (45min)
5. Open transport data, the policy side (introduction for a discussion)
(45min)

Talks 16:00 - 17:30
5. Existing apps: let's make them go global by adding open data.

*Plenary Discussion 18:00 - 19:30*
*A round table with different stakeholders discussing best practices for
transport data*

*# PART III : Wednesday, 19th September

Hands-on! Building the emerging open transport data re-use community
*
1. From dynamic to real-time data 11:30 - 13:00
2. Creating transport user interfaces 14:00 - 15:30
3. Kick-off for an open transport data handbook 16:00 - 17:30

Planning document: *
http://okfnpad.org/OKFest-transport-track
*
Program
Draft:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BY80qxQe0HT6wvjxH4fDhu6TTMcKYN5S9Pjp3JmXmdk/edit

*## Last round of Travel Bursaries & Free Week-Long Tickets*

We are also very happy to announce another round of Travel Bursaries for
development practitioners, coders and new international guests thanks to
Sida (the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency), the
Sunlight Foundation and other programme partners. Deadlines are the 1st
and 8th of August, so we recommend applying soon. Applications can be
found at http://okfestival.org/travel-bursaries/.

*## Early Bird Tickets now open*

OKFestival 2012 Early Bird Tickets are available at discounted rates
until the first week of August
at http://okfestival.org/early-bird/tickets. This year we offer both day
and week tickets, with week-long tickets covering all of OKFestival’s
action-packed core conference days from Tues Sept 18th to Thurs Sept
20th, with a summary and debrief day on Fri Sept 21st. A diverse variety
of Satellite Events are also running before and after the event.

See also our latest blog post about OKFestival
http://blog.okfn.org/2012/07/18/okfestival-goes-global-tickets-and-bursaries-now-public/

--
Daniel Dietrich
Open Government Data WG Coordinator
EU Open Data WG Coordinator
OKF Germany Chairman
ePSI platform Editor

Open Knowledge Foundation
Promoting Open Knowledge in a Digital Age
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