[ok-scotland] Open Knowledge Discussion Forum

Mon Sep 28 10:09:16 UTC 2015

Hi Ewan,

Thanks for this.

How are things in Edinburgh?

Are you planning any more events in the near future?

Skyscanner's events team wants to know what's going on in the local tech scene and if there is anything we can help with.

I'm coming back to Edinburgh for two weeks starting on Wednesday if you want to catch up :-)

Cheers,

Iain Elder
iainelder at hotmail.co.uk
07714160586

From: ewan.klein at gmail.com
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 18:52:43 +0100
To: ok-scotland at lists.okfn.org
Subject: [ok-scotland] Open Knowledge Discussion Forum

Hi everyone,
This is just to let you all know about the relatively new Open Knowledge Discussion Forum at https://discuss.okfn.org
There is an increasing amount of interesting material being posted and discussed on the Forum, so it's well worth exploring. It’s also a promising alternative to to endless emails! You will need to set up an account to login to the Forum. 
If there is enough interest, we could look into setting up a Scotland-specific topic area on the Forum — let me know.
I’m appending a digest to give you a flavour of the discussion topics.
Regards
Ewan

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