[okfn-help] Workshops preceding OKCon

Thu May 5 17:30:08 BST 2011

Hi David,

That's wonderful! I'm working on the abstract for the dev workshop
now: http://ckan.okfnpad.org/dev-workshop-proposal - Could you give me
a hand?

Are you also available on any of the proposed dates 28th / 29th?

Lucy

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 5:26 PM, David Read <david.read at okfn.org> wrote:
> 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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