[okfn-help] Workshops preceding OKCon

Thu May 5 17:26:01 BST 2011

On 5 May 2011 17:19, Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org> wrote:
>> Friedrich just made the proposal to have a dev workshop: 28th for OpenSpending and the 29th for CKAN
>
> We need to wait for Friedrich to confirm this - I originally suggested
> that OpenSpending was on 29th (to allow for a 2 day hackday on the
> Monday and Tuesday) and CKAN was the 28th - but nothing is set in
> stone yet, so it is open to your views!
>
>> I like the idea and would love to see this happening! Also I would need a short abstract for the dev workshop for publication asap.
>
> I sent an email to the dev-list yesterday, but have not had any
> response in people wanting to lead the workshop:

I'd be happy to lead this workshop :-)

Dave

>
> @Seb / James - can either of you think of someone we should approach
> personally about this? Once we have the workshop leader confirmed, we
> can finalise the abstract, I'm going to be drafting it here:
>
> <http://ckan.okfnpad.org/dev-workshop-proposal>
>
>>> @ Daniel - would there be a room for this (for the time-being the user
>>> focused workshop) at the conference (there may also be the need for
>>> another room if we decide to do the dev-one at the conference as well,
>>> but I will wait to hear back from the dev-list first)?
>
>> Yes that would be great! Please go ahead and submit a short proposal via http://okcon.org/2011/submit/
>
> @ Seb - would you be happy to lead the 'at conference' user-oriented
> one? I have created a pad and will start to draft a proposal, please
> feel free to join in, then we can submit it!:
>
> <http://ckan.okfnpad.org/user-workshop-proposal>
>
> @ Daniel - the submit link is giving me a 500 server error! Could we
> get this looked at?
>
> Lucy
>
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