[OKFN-FR] OKFN France

Sat Oct 27 09:29:56 UTC 2012

Hi Kat,

All of that is very good news and best of luck for the Open Data Transport
development in France. It's quite a challenge !
We will be of course be very happy to help. And same for the local
community, it's a good thing to start good relationships with them.
I am also lobbying Reims City and Metropole to launch their Open Data
Program. OKFN could be a big help here as well.

- *Meetup*: Concerning the date for the Meetup, we already asked to la
Cantine, so I would suggest keeping that date of the 11 or 12 of Dec. And
if they cant we will ask to La Fonderie. But I think the sooner the
better. And having Le Web, which by the way is not really an open event - 2000€
 the ticket :( - one week before is not necessary a bad thing.

- *Edgeryders  *: Yes should be good that one of us join you a the
Edgeryders event. What is the date ? I am not sure of my december agenda
yet, but I could try to make it.

*- TEDX Paris :* 27 Nov, it's quite short notice! That would be great to
participate, but I am personnaly not confident enough to speak in the name
of OKFN about projects I did not work on a lot yet. Others, what do you
think ?

- *Next calls /Agenda : *I created an OKFN France agenda, we planned a
wikipedia session next tuesday afternoon to revamp the OKFN French webpage.
We can plan a call further in the week. *What about Thusrday 5:30 pm ?*

- *Community outreach :* We will start contacting French Open Data actors
next week. List is on Google Doc. Main goal is to announce the creation of
the group and to engage good relationships with them for the future.

Also, I don't mind communicating in english but I think it will be
important to communicate mostly in french on okfn-fr at lists.okfn.org
Kat can you confirm to me you are registered on that list ?

Have a good week end all

Pierre

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 10:07 PM, K Borlongan <k.borlongan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> (I'm going to keep this in English for now unless Peter, you're cool with
> us writing in French?)
>
> Again, sorry about having been MIA. I dashed off to SF right after the
> SNCF data hackathon and things have been incredibly hectic. Here are a few
> updates on some things I'm working on where OKFN France could be involved :
>
> - I've just been tasked to launch the open data programs of the French
> regional trains (TER). I need to select at least two cities to run a pilot
> program that essentially involves (1) wrestling with French bureaucrats to
> free data (Fun fun fun) and (2) developing and implementing an outreach
> strategy that both leverages and builds open data communities. I'm going in
> as an independent consultant, but if it helps OKFN I would also be happy
> putting on an OKFN hat and expand our regional networks.
> - I'm part of Edgeryders, a Council of Europe think tank. We're organizing
> a conference this December in Brussels on innovative policy-making. I think
> I can get funding (hotel+transport) for one of you to come participate in
> the conference. Many of the people there have a lot of online visibility
> and clout in open knowledge networks. Our website desperately needs to be
> updated: http://edgeryders.ppa.coe.int/ If anyone is interested, let me
> know and I'll try to get you onboard.
> - TedX Paris is coming up soon. One of us should pitch OKFN France!
>
> Just one quick comment: With regards to the OKFN France meetup date, I
> suggest we move it to early January. Le Web is taking place in the first
> week of December--which means that Paris is already saturated with
> satellite events that will keep the tech community very busy. If you're
> game for January, I think I can get La Fonderie (who just hired a full-time
> open data staff member) to host it. Let me know?
> Either way, it would be cool to have coffee with Jean-Baptiste Roger (the
> director) and Gaël Musquet (their new open data guy who also happens to be
> the chairman of Open Street Map France). Since their program is very new
> (less than 2 months) it might be a good idea to coordinate with them and
> just establish ourselves as partners in this domain. If that's up your
> alley, how about I set something up for the end of November?
>
> I'm open to doing a call next week if you are. Because of the time
> difference, the earliest I could do is 5:30pm French time though.
>
> Cheers!
> The Other Kat
>

-- 
*Pierre Chrzanowski*
Skype: pierre.chrzanowski // Twitter : piezanowski
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