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

Wed Oct 8 16:49:54 UTC 2014

I’m not sure whether it would be productive for OKF to ignore who it actually is in favour of what it would like to be. While, during the past couple of years, it aspires to be a global org, my perception is that it’s very strongly European in terms of numbers. In effect, OKFestival is a regional thing for Europe: US has TCamp and CfASummit; LatAm has AbreLatam and HHBA, etc.

Wonder if OKI has good data on the actual make-up of the community? 

Also, criteria are interesting. Here’s a few: 

* Travel cost for the expected participants (it’s better to do stipends for a few then for average costs to rise).
* Getting visa (a minus for Schengen, apparently)
* Infrastructure: direct flights, hotels & hostels (Berlin is no good at airports, but still easy to get to)
* Strong community that can support the OKF-UK team (which I think OKF has in LatAm more than Africa, for example)
* Cost

Cheers, 

- Friedrich

On 08 Oct 2014, at 18:35, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:

> On 8 October 2014 17:28, Daniel Dietrich <daniel.dietrich at okfn.org> wrote:
> Ahoi!
> 
> +100 for OKFestival 2015 location outside Europe and USA !
> 
> :-) But how would it be managed / funded? (Given points made in the email)
> 
> Also and thoughts on the specific criteria by which we should evaluate location options?
> 
> I think it will be more useful to think about criteria rather than +1 or -1'ing a given location :-)
> 
> Rufus
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