[okfn-discuss] Great job on Helsinki Festival!

Mon Oct 8 20:30:29 UTC 2012

Karsten's email inspires me to chime in with what has been on my mind since Helsinki. It was a job very well done by the organizing committee. A festival (doesn't feel right calling it a conference; festival is indeed the correct term) that stands out as one of the very few in the past many years that I learned from and also enjoyed thoroughly.

As a new Creative Commons employee, and one attending OKFestival for the first time, I was so heartened at seeing what I kept on calling in mind, "My community, my tribe." It is usually fun though not challenging to hang out with those who agree with you, but this was different -- I found all the different streams I attended  both fun *and* challenging.

Oh, and please let me know who thought of hosting the event at that Aalto School of Design -- I need to buy that person a beer as recognition for a most inspired decision. The space embodied everything that the event was about, or vice versa.

Puneet.

On Oct 8, 2012, at 12:57 PM, Kat Braybrooke <kat.braybrooke at okfn.org> wrote:

> Thanks very much for that, Karsten. Really appreciated you being there, and
> it's great to hear you had a good time! We'll be sending out a thank you
> email and recap post via the Open Knowledge Foundation later this week
> ourselves :)
> 
> Kat
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> On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 10:48 PM, Karsten Gerloff <gerloff at fsfeurope.org>wrote:
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>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> I just wanted to let you know that I found the Open Knowledge
>> Festival in Helsinki really wonderful. Lots of interesting people
>> and topics - much more than I could absorb, in fact, and I wish I
>> would have had more time there.
>> 
>> Great job, everyone! Keep up the good work.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> Karsten
>> ..

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Puneet Kishor