[okfn-be] Official chapter and our working groups

Tue Oct 16 11:29:11 UTC 2012

Hey Pieter,

I want to start a new working group within OKFN, "Wikipedia Users Belgium".
The goal is twofold: firstly bring Wikipedia contributors and editors
together, and secondly run projects that will support Wikipedia, like
mproving quality, increase amount of visitors, organise irl events, ...

It looks as if we can really collaborate with the other working groups.

Regards,
Maarten

2012/9/22 Pieter Colpaert <pieter.colpaert at okfn.org>

> 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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