[okfn-be] Official chapter and our working groups

Tue Oct 16 14:44:19 UTC 2012

Hi Maarten,

We were really kind of waiting for this to happen.

@ Wouter: do you want to help on the practical side on arranging this?

Kind regards,

Pieter

On 10/16/2012 01:29 PM, maarten deneckere wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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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