[okfn-discuss] OKFN-meetup / travellers list/service/dashboard idea

Sat Jul 16 10:28:54 UTC 2011

Great idea Lucy. Perhaps one thing we could do is have a regular
round-up of groups, lists, meetups and initiatives? Like a digest of
'open knowledge community bulletin'? E.g. a monthly post on
blog.okfn.org + okfn-discuss with:

  * an overview of local chapters / groups / lists + planned activities
  * a list of upcoming open knowledge / open content / open data related events
  * an overview of OKF working groups and planned (online) meetups and events

At first this would probably require a fair degree of effort, but if
it was useful to people then it might get easier. Having the OKF
community actively scouting these things out would help.

For now I guess okfn-discuss is the main channel for 'hey who's in
country X?' type shout outs, and everyone at the OKF can help out in
introducing people to people. We should also have a better overview of
OKF regional lists, which I think Kat is working on? I don't know if
country/city groups might also help, e.g.:
http://okfn.org/groups/open-knowledge-london/

J.

On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org> wrote:
> A slightly off-the-wall idea, but I would appreciate the list's input:
>
> I regularly am contacted by people saying, "I am going to be in such
> and such a city on such and such a date, can you put me in touch with
> anyone there I can talk to?". I think it is quite important that the
> OKF support a mechanism for supporting independent meetups of
> like-minded people.
>
> Ideally, we will have the dashboard with the map of members up and
> running soon, so it will become very easy to see who is where (and
> ideally, people will be contactable through it).
>
> But I wondered about possibly having a specific mailing list /
> mechanism on the site for things like this (e.g.
> OKFN-meetups-worldwide (ww) , so that people could announce their
> intention to start something in their area and measure interest for
> e.g. setting up a mailing list for a given area..., or people who are
> travelling can ask who is in the area and keen to meet up)
>
> Maybe mailing list is the wrong way to do it, but perhaps we could
> build some kind of function to place planned meetings / "would like to
> meet people in such and such an area" on our members map as an
> additional function (don't know how easy it would be to do!)?
>
> All the best,
>
> Lucy
>
> Just a thought,
>
> Lucy
>
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