[ok-edinburgh] capacity of OK Scotland event

Tue Apr 27 12:05:10 UTC 2010

forgot to say

- if there is good enough interest in the OK topics and area of
research/practice, I would suggest
to make sure that people find a way of engaging before they leave the room
are there any action points? any follow ups that can be arranged for each
topic? make sure people
find ways of become involved in whatever needs to be done
so that we dont waste this opportunity

- in my experience of organising meetings, note that it is normal that up to
50%  sometimes
(depending on season and other factors) do not turn up on the day -got flu,
missed the plane, puncutred the tyre, cat died etc0

so if you want to have 75 ppl i the room, it is sate to sell
ten or twenty percent more tickets, say ninety

it would be a very rare occurrence that everyone who reserved a ticked
turned up, a phenomenon
worthy of scientific investigation in its own right if that happens  :-)

p

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Paola Di Maio <paola.dimaio at gmail.com>wrote:

> Jo and all
>
> thanks for the invitation to join the meeting today, i d love to meet but i
> have some IMPORTANT work to finish
> I ll  see how much I get done then decide
>
> repository fringe? lol - a new one for me,
>
> some wiki page would be good
>
>
> let us know how can we help
>
> look forward
>
> P
>
>
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> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Jo Walsh <jo.walsh at ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>>
>> Paula, these all look like great suggestions,
>>
>>
>> On 26/04/2010 16:17, Paola Di Maio wrote:
>>
>>> 1. break down the meeting into 2-3 smaller topic areas and spread around
>>> different dates, perhaps?
>>>
>>
>> Later in the year (September? October?) Robin and Stuart are planning
>> their Repository Fringe conference (this will be the 4th?).
>> We've briefly discussed adding an Open Knowledge mini-event onto this -
>>
>> The more I think about it the more I like the idea. This event could be
>> focused on the research topic areas - open access, community-driven
>> research, open process for publishers and funders, etc.
>>
>> As for the government / local data areas I'm less sure. There will be some
>> Scottish government / archives / geodata showing and one thing I want to see
>> emerging from this is "Scotland's Data" ideally based on CKAN. I hope
>> current leaders in that scene would take the lead on this.
>> We can see how much really shakes out.
>>
>> This Wednesday am doing an OSGeo talk to a group of local government
>> geodata interest types in Glasgow, will big up OK Scotland and would like to
>> make sure that folks there are still able to register.
>>
>> Michael Fourman did mention, a while back, the prospect of moving to
>> another bigger venue within the main Informatics Forum - but I really do
>> like Inspace as a space and like the fact that it is not so much within,
>> security gates etc.
>>
>>  2. allow remote participation?
>>>
>>
>> You mean people skyping in, or live A/V feeds going out? I have a little
>> flip video camera now and will use it to record talks etc.
>> EDINA actually has a "social media officer" who i'm counting on to corral
>> the twittersphere for this (though has she registered?!)
>>
>>
>>  3. keep the  talks really short and link to a website where people can
>>> link their stuff
>>>
>>
>> Thinking 5-10 mins per talk including questions... and yes lots of
>> documentation! A programme page on the main OKF wiki?
>>
>>
>>  I also wanted to ask, how can participants engage with OKF and Edina
>>> with related projects and research, where relevant?
>>>
>>
>> Yes these are good questions that deserve better answers :)
>>
>> Tomorrow at 4pm, the Data Library, 5 Buccleuch Place, Second Floor, Robin
>> has arranged a meeting to go through the talk submissions and put a draft
>> final programme together - I hope we can stay flexible up to the day - all
>> welcome to come and meet - strictly 1 hour max.
>>
>> be well,
>>
>>
>> jo
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