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

[Lucy Chambers]

Great! It may then be best to try and find a slot on 22nd to talk about this :)

Lucy

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Daniela B. Silva <daniela em esfera.mobi> wrote:
> Hi, Lucy
> We just got our tickets: getting there on 18th afternoon, leaving on the
> 23rd.
> It will be great to see you all and brainstorm around this
> Daniela
>
> On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers em okfn.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>> Community Coordinator
>> Open Knowledge Foundation
>> http://okfn.org/
>> Skype: lucyfediachambers
>
>



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Lucy Chambers
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Open Knowledge Foundation
http://okfn.org/
Skype: lucyfediachambers