[okfn-discuss] Open Knowledge Festival 2015 - Location Thoughts

[P Kishor]

On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 4:40 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>
wrote:
> At present, the two likely options are London or Berlin based on:
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Berlin is great, and while I too support the gathering to move outside of
Europe/America, I realize it is complicated, Europe is centrally located,
and in fact, perhaps even settling on one place can reduce complexity (for
example, AGU is always held at Moscone Center in SF, and OSCON is always
held in Portland, Oregon).


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> Would be great to get folks’ thoughts both on additional items not
included and any thoughts on this list as well as generally.


But, would you strike me with the hammer of Thor if I were to say that
while Kulturbrauerei was a great as a cultural location, it was not very
good for the actual sessions. Every session I went to was just too noisy
(noise from adjacent sessions), acoustics were really terrible, the spaces
were shaped non-conducively (pardon my tortured sentences here).

Now, if only you could transport that fabulous Aalto School of Design to
Berlin, and bring some good English beer with you…

--
Puneet Kishor
Manager, Science and Data Policy
Creative Commons
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