[okfn-discuss] Great job on Helsinki Festival!

Tue Oct 9 04:38:45 UTC 2012

Dear Everyone @OKfest,

Its a great festival I have ever learnt!!! Though I was not physically
attend the event, I had followed it virtually...

I express my sincere thanks to the organisers and the participants of
OKfest.

Thanks & Regards
Sridhar
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On 9 October 2012 04:13, Kat Braybrooke <kat.braybrooke at okfn.org> wrote:

> Puneet,
>
> Thank you so much. Such nice words to read! I'm CC'ing my colleagues also
> on the Core Organising Team - Juha, Jussi, Antti, Massimo and Petri - so
> they can read this too. The venue was a collective decision amongst all of
> us along with the core partners (the Open Knowledge Foundation, the Finnish
> Insitute in London, and Aalto Media Factory), and we were aided by a team
> of extremely talented spatial and graphic design students (also CC'd) at
> the university who worked for months to make it feel like a real gathering
> space.
>
> I know everyone on the organising team will really appreciate your
> enthusiasm for the event. It was an amazing project for all of us to be
> involved in, the community of guest organisers were extremely inspiring,
> and we were blown away by how great the atmosphere was during the week.
> That positivity was really due to participants like yourself who came from
> all over the world to spend a week building new things, sharing ideas and
> getting to know new people.
>
> So thank you again for your kind words, and for joining us - looking
> forward to seeing you and the rest of the tribe next time.
>
> Kat
>
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> | The Open Knowledge Foundation <http://okfn.org/>
> | Coordinator of OKFestival 2012 <http://okfestival.org/> & Regional
> Groups <http://okfn.org/chapters>
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>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 9:30 PM, Puneet Kishor <punk.kish at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
>> >
>> > ..
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 10:48 PM, Karsten Gerloff <gerloff at fsfeurope.org
>> >wrote:
>> >
>> >> 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
>> >> ..
>>
>>
>> --
>> Puneet Kishor
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