[okfn-discuss] What date for the open knowledge event next spring

[Rufus Pollock]

Jo Walsh wrote:
> dear Rufus, all,
> 
> In general I have difficulty envisaging the future more than 2 months
> ahead. I have no commitments to any of these dates and all look good. 
> Early March could make a lot of sense, kick off early. If i think of
> or hear of more potential clashes I will let you know.

Interesting. I'd been inclining to later in April because sundown was 
later (clocks go back on March 25th and by mid-April it is after 8pm). 
However I think you're right that makes good sense to start early. In 
that case the date options narrow to:

1. w/e of 10th of March
2. w/e of 17th of March

My preference is for the 17th. What do others think?

> In terms of syndicating planning out to specialised groups - if
> mysociety / TWFY are doing a civic information access strand - an
> OSGeo-UK chapter is just being started around a core of archaeologists
> doing open source GIS at Oxford - and I'd like to ask them to organise
> an open geodata evening, track or whatever works out. It could be

That would be great.

> nice, if we had the collective distributed energy, to do a short
> "season" of evening Open Knowledge Forums in different cities? 

Good idea. It would be fantastic to see people running Open Knowledge 
Forums elsewhere ...

~rufus

> On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 10:45:31AM +0100, Rufus Pollock wrote:
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>>ETech is March 26-29. Easter is 8 April 2007. Are there any other events 
>>with which we should not clash?