[ok-scotland] The Warm Spring of Openess

[Paola Di Maio]

Jo

and all who have replied

Given the importance and vastness of the topic, I would be tempted to set up
a programme, and possibly get some funding under the heading
'openness' across various threads of discourse

Please let me know if interested in collaborating to writing a proposal, for
example
for the Insigh instutute

Draft and reference below
http://ramblin.posterous.com/proposal

cheers

PDM




On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Jo Walsh <jo at frot.org> wrote:

> dear all,
>
> A plan forms in my mind. I've been in several different conversational
> loops about openness-related gatherings in Edinburgh, so far three:
>
> 1) Chris Taggart, Ben Plouviez and a scattering of other people want to do
> a Linked Open Local Data event here later this year or early next
> 2) James Toon, Robin Rice and others thinking about maybe a themed series
> of "Open Scholarship" workshops
> 3) FOSS4GG, a free software and geographic themed event focused on local
> government / public administrations / NGOs
>
> We could try to do all three back-to-back. James Reid at EDINA is starting
> to talk with AGI folk about co-organising FOSS4GG.
> I like the Informatics Forum. When do the daffodils bloom?
>
> Potential clashes - government people might be wiped out for N weeks before
> the Scottish Parliament elections which are in May, so we would be looking
> at March, perhaps too soon for daffodils to be in bloom.
>
> Thoughts much appreciated,
>
>
> jo
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