[okfn-br] Fwd: [OKFN-LOCAL-coord] OKFestival 2012: Travel Bursaries, Early Bird Tickets, Keynotes and Schedule

[Everton Zanella Alvarenga]

Pessoal, deveria ter mandado aqui antes. Mas hoje é o último dia para
pedir bolsas para ir ao OKFest que ocorrerá no final de setembro na
Finlândia. Abraços, Tom


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From: Kat Braybrooke <>
Date: 2012/7/19
Subject: [OKFN-LOCAL-coord] OKFestival 2012: Travel Bursaries, Early
Bird Tickets, Keynotes and Schedule
To:

Hello all,

A few quick (yet exciting!) updates about this autumn's Open Knowledge
Festival <http://okfestival.org>, happening in Helsinki from September
17 - 22. Please share this information with interested colleagues if
you get a moment, and we look forward to seeing you all this fall in
Helsinki!

You may have heard that OKFestival's team of over 100 Guest Programme
Planners from around the world have been hard at work, and this rumour
is quite true! Planners are now finalising their diverse programmes
for all 13 of the Topic Streams for 2012 on the festival schedule
<http://okfestival.org/schedule> which includes keynote speakers like
Gapminder's Hans Rosling, the EFF's Karsten Gerloff, Stanford
University's Tanja Aitamurto and Urbanscale's Adam Greenfield, as well
as a variety of intriguing workshops, sessions, lectures, hackathons
and coding jams from "The Art of #OpenData Cooking" to Open Government
Partnership meetings to hackdays on Open Science and Building the
Cultural Commons.

#### EARLY BIRD TICKETS NOW OPEN

OKFestival 2012 Early Bird Tickets are available at discounted rates
until the first week of August at
<http://okfestival.org/early-bird/tickets>. This year we offer both
day and week tickets, with week-long tickets covering all of
OKFestival’s action-packed core conference days from Tues Sept 18th to
Thurs Sept 20th, with a summary and debrief day on Fri Sept 21st. A
diverse variety of Satellite Events are also running before and after
the event.

#### LAST ROUND OF TRAVEL BURSARIES & FREE WEEK-LONG TICKETS

We are also very happy to announce another round of Travel Bursaries
for development practitioners, coders and new international guests
thanks to Sida (the Swedish International Development Cooperation
Agency), the Sunlight Foundation and other programme partners.
Deadlines are the 1st and 8th of August, so we recommend applying
soon. Applications can be found at
<http://okfestival.org/travel-bursaries/>.

#### #OKFEST CREW AND OTHER WAYS TO GET INVOLVED

For students and other participants who want to get more involved in
the festival itself in return for a free weeklong OKFestival ticket,
we also offer the #OKFestCrew Volunteer Scheme, which provides the
opportunity to engage with the backstage planning that goes into the
organisation of a major international festival
<http://okfestival.org/okfestcrew>.

There are also many more ways for you to get involved. For development
practitioners, there has recently been a post about why those
interested in international development should come to Helsinki this
fall <http://twitter.com/MarijaNovkovic/status/220079657020702720>,
and for those working on academic research in Open Data, there is a
Call for Papers open here
<http://blog.okfn.org/2012/06/29/call-for-papers-open-data-academic-research-at-okfest/>.

#### CONTACT US

Have questions for our Topic Stream planners or the Core Organising
Team, or want to get more involved by proposing a satellite or evening
event? Feel free to contact us at <http://okfestival.org/contact>.

Also, for future reference, you can find a published version of this
information in today's blog post on the OKFN Blog here:
http://blog.okfn.org/2012/07/18/okfestival-goes-global-tickets-and-bursaries-now-public/

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| Kat Braybrooke | London, UK
| The Open Knowledge Foundation
| Coordinator of OKFestival 2012 & Regional Groups
| Twitter @kat_braybrooke | Skype @ardent_coeur




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Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom)
Open Knowledge Foundation Brasil