[okfn-help] Workshops preceding OKCon

Thu May 5 17:55:17 BST 2011

On 5 May 2011 17:30, Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org> wrote:
> 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?

Sure, I'll flesh it out.

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

Yes, I'm flexible that week, so just let me know what you decide.

David

> 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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>
>
>
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> Lucy Chambers
> Community Coordinator
> Open Knowledge Foundation
> http://okfn.org/
> Skype: lucyfediachambers
>