[Okfn-dk] nordic+baltic okfn cooperation and school of data

Wed Jan 15 11:27:24 UTC 2014

The Danish winter holidays are also in that week - in some municipalities.
In other municipalities, it is in the week before.

Regards,
Ole
Den 15/01/2014 10.09 skrev "miska knapek" <contactmiska at knapek.org>:

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>
> Hello again everyone,
>
> Well, it not seems that the Norwegians have a national/winter holiday  on
> the open data day :(
> They're trying to figure out alternative days for a Nordic get-together -
> even if it might be in skype form.
>
> The next conceivable time is around the 4th march, which is the day
> they're trying to push the open data day to.
>
> Here's what Heather Broomfield of data.norge.no wrote:
>
> "The Open data day has been a challenge for us.  Firstly it lands right
> when winter holidays are taken here in Norway (very many people take these
> holidays), there is also a big hackathon happening on the 6-7 Feb regarding
> cultural data. As you know we thought about running the data journalism
> event on open data day too, but given the winter holidays this would not be
> wise, instead we are now looking at the 4th March. We are meeting with our
> boss this afternoon about this, so I hope we will have confirmation that we
> can go ahead with it.  So with all of this happening plus the winter
> holidays, we had to make the difficult decision that it would be very
> difficult to get people if we were to push the 22nd  aswell, so we are
> not taking a leading role here.
>
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> If we  get the data journalism day happening on the 4th, we are hoping
> that it would be possible to have an open data meet up that evening – could
> it be an option to come then instead? We could make a happening and maybe
> even get a Nordic meetup together or something.  There are many
> opportunitiesJ"
>
> /miska
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