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

Lucy Chambers lucy.chambers em okfn.org
Terça Outubro 11 11:58:48 UTC 2011


Dear Augusto,

Oh no! Is there anything that we can do to help from our end? Could you keep
us posted so we know what to do about your talk?

We will try and bring you in somehow!

Best,

Lucy

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Augusto Herrmann <
augusto.herrmann em gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, Lucy and Tom!
>
> I'd love to discuss this at Warsaw as well, but I *still* don't have a
> confirmation from superiors in the Ministry that I'll be able to go. This
> makes me greatly ashamed, since I'm in the conference steering comittee as
> well and Daniel Dietrich has already reserved a slot in the OGD Camp for my
> talk. I'd pay myself for the trip if there was no other way and I could
> afford it, but even then, as a civil servant, I'd need an official
> authorization to go abroad anyway.
>
> Anyway, we will have a room where we can discuss this during the National
> Open Data Meeting Brasília as well. In case I can't go to Warsaw, I'll catch
> up with you all (Friedrich, Tom, Pedro, Daniela and anyone else interested)
> there.
>
> Regards,
> Augusto Herrmann
>
> 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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>>
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