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

Wed Jan 15 11:34:33 UTC 2014

I think a link-up / skype / hangout between participating nordic/baltic
countries on Open Data Day would be great.

Also, on further thought, it might be a little to ambitious to get people
physically together as a starting point? I'd suggest that we try to
collaborate from afar (School of Data being a great project to share) and
then later down the road see whether we can actually put something together
where we travel. Doing so also requires funding for most of us, I assume
(and that shouldn't be a barrier to getting started) :)

-Christian

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Ole Palnatoke Andersen
<ole at palnatoke.org>wrote:

> 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>:
>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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