[okfn-br] Fwd: Local chapter of Open Knowledge Foundation in Brazil

[Lucy Chambers]

Hi Tom & Augusto!

Tom, it was fantastic speaking to you the other day. What are your
travel dates for the camp (i.e. will you be staying for a couple of
days either side, we should have a sit-down with Daniela & Pedro, who
will be at the camp also.

Daniela, Pedro - what are your travel dates also? I will try and
pencil a set time to talk about this and grab Jonathan and Rufus to
come along too...

Very excited to talk more about this. I am sure with Brazil's size and
the fact it may be the first of its kind in South America, we will
need lots of input from people on this list about how various
obstacles should be overcome!

Look forward to hearing from you!

Lucy

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 2:38 AM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga
<everton137 em gmail.com> wrote:
> The email bellow should have been sent to the mailing list. I don't
> why I didn't do it.
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Everton Zanella Alvarenga <everton137 em gmail.com>
> Date: 2011/10/6
> Subject: Re: [okfn-br] Local chapter of Open Knowledge Foundation in Brazil
> To: Augusto Herrmann <>
> Cc: Christian Moryah Miranda <>, Nitai Bezerra Silva <>
>
>
> Hi!
>
> 2011/10/5 Augusto Herrmann <augusto.herrmann em gmail.com>:
>
>> I just read your message 90 minutes too late to participate in the Skype
>> call with Lucy. How was it?
>
> The meeting was online between me and Lucy. We have added what we've
> talked about on this etherpad
>
> http://coord.okfnpad.org/brazil
>
> and Lucy has started a wiki page for a Brazilian plan
>
> http://wiki.okfn.org/Brazil
>
> (I've aready started there a subpage to we translate to Portuguese OKFn goals.)
>
>> I'd like to propose that the idea of a local chapter for the Open Knowledge
>> Foundation be discussed in our 1st National Open Data Meeting, which will
>> take place in Brasília, from 26th - 27th October. What form do you all this
>> discussion could take place? Should there be a panel or just a bunch of
>> people discussing informally in a room (unconference)?
>
> It'd be great! My first proposal was that we should have a online
> meeting with all people interested at most in the beginning of
> November, but I think it can be a good idea to have during this
> conference, which is just a few day after Open Government Camp
> <http://opengovernmentdata.org/camp2011/>.
>
> I, Daniela Silva and Pedro Markun are going to this event, so I think
> we can already discuss about the idea there personaly with members of
> OKFn.
>
> Before that, I think we can begin to gather people from some of the
> groups I've mentioned in this mailing list and already have in mind to
> have a meeting in person where we find more people interested in the
> formation and participation of the chapter - my suggestion was, as you
> can see in the etherpad document, in the mid November (maybe at the
> W3C event in Rio de Janeiro?).
>
> A problem come to my mind about personal meetings in Brazil, since we
> are a country of a continental size. As you can see in the Wikimedia
> Brasil chapter case, this was one key points to we create a model that
> could replicate our initiatives and projects in other places of the
> country.
>
> My impression is that, at the moment, most of the people involved with
> open data in Brazil are in Brasília and São Paulo (there people from
> other places, sure).
>
>> Hopefully we can arrange it in time to spread the word so interested people
>> can plan their trips and come.
>
> That would be great! Can you give us more information about this event
> in Brasília? Are the lectures already defined?
>
> Tomorrow, at the City Council of São in the Workshop on Open Data
> <http://goo.gl/7q2iI>, I'm already going to invite people to this
> mailing list and talk about the idea of a local chapter. During this
> workshop, I want to stress the importance to the government have a
> task force similar to what happened in England
> <http://powerofinformation.wordpress.com/about/> (Lucy, Kat and Rufus,
> maybe you can tell us how succeful was this experience), involving
> especialists, civil society and the government in thr process of
> create a local open data program.
>
> I'm going to blog about this, hopefully today.
>
> See you!
>
> Tom
>
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Lucy Chambers
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Open Knowledge Foundation
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