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

Wed Oct 8 22:48:21 UTC 2014

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> Europe is centrally located
>
To Asia it's not. Turkey might be easier.

Can I add to the list of requirements
- degree of civic participation/openness in the country
- that the location not require a lot of injections/vaccinations before
entry?  That's a pain
- +1 to immigration requirements & minimal visa processes

A.

Kind regards
Anna Daniel  PhD
Information Policy, Griffith University

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On 9 October 2014 02:42, P Kishor <punk.kish at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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:
> >
> >
>
>
> 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).
>
>
> > ..
> >
> >
> > 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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