[okfn-be] Official chapter and our working groups

Fri Oct 5 15:28:20 UTC 2012

Indeed, great work!!!

Best,
Tasha

On 26/09/2012 12:50, Kat Braybrooke wrote:
> Massive congratulations to Pieter, Lieven and everyone else who made
> this possible - we're proud of you guys!
>
> Kat
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> On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Pieter Colpaert
> <pieter.colpaert at okfn.org <mailto:pieter.colpaert at okfn.org>> wrote:
>
>     Hi everyone,
>
>     If you haven't heard the news already, we are now an official
>     chapter of
>     the Open Knowledge Foundation. I know it has been quiet on the public
>     mailing list of OKFN Belgium, but today is a perfect day to start
>     switching gears.
>
>     Until now we have set up 4 main working groups:
>
>     * Creative Commons Belgium, led by Yannick H'Madoun. For the next
>     months
>     he is going to visit Creative Commons in Amsterdam and is going to
>     manage Creative Commons Belgium from abroad.
>
>     * Open Transport working group (aka iRail), led by Pieter Colpaert.
>     During the next months we are going to do more international projects
>     together with the international transport working group. One of the
>     first projects will be an open transport data handbook for policy
>     makers
>
>     * Open education working group (aka SchoolKid) led by Stephane
>     Roelandt.
>     - Stef, can you give a small update here?
>
>     * App/Hack/Make competition working group led by Lieven Janssen
>      - Labs for X: organising internal long-term (~min 1 week) hackathons
>     inside organisations. First one has been organised for VDAB and was a
>     success
>      - Open data workshops: one evening, one organisation's datasets, lots
>     of coffee/beer.
>      - Apps For X: 1 day hackathon/open data days concerning a certain X
>     (city, subject, group...). Last one which we organised was Apps For
>     Flanders on the 14th of September. Next one will probably be Apps For
>     Antwerp on the first of December. We still need some hands there!
>
>     Want to get involved in one of the current working groups?
>     Interested in
>     setting up your own working group at OKFN Belgium? Reply here!
>
>     Kind regards,
>
>     Pieter
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