[Okfn-no] a part of OKFN finland visits Norway

Wed Jan 1 11:16:55 UTC 2014

Thanks for the kind note Olav.

Thanks too for the interest about finland. I'm talking with some of the
OKFN Finland board members of how to document and present Finland a little
more in English. Hopefully we'll figure something out before long.

Happy New Open Year!

miska

On 30 December 2013 19:57, Olav Anders Øvrebø <olav at oov.no> wrote:

>  Thanks for the tip, but unfortunately I return to Oslo after Markus  has
> left again. It would be interesting to hear more about Finland, hope I get
> another chance later!
>
> olav
>
>
> On 28.12.2013 12:25, miska knapek wrote:
>
>
> Hello everyone,
>
>  ( I originally meant to send this specifically to the people in the To:
> field, as I've contacted them earlier. But I'm also cc:ing this to the okfn
> norway mailing list in the event there are other interested people in this )
>
>
> Many apologies if this announcement and introduction comes a bit late -
> let's say I got kidnapped for the holidays.
>
> Markus Petteri Laine, who's been quite active in OKFN Finland - and also
> very much in the documenting of OKFN Finland's doings, is now in Oslo
> visiting his partner, for the Holidays.
> He leaves again on the 6th of January.
>
> I thought that it could be rather interesting for open data around Oslo to
> perhaps meet with Petteri.
>
> While I don't want to dictate Petteri's interests or doings - we're all
> very modest here in the Nordics :) - I could imagine it could be
> interesting for the others to hear of how the Finnish scene evolved, what's
> happening - funnily enough, there are a bunch of data related meetups in
> helsinki these days (and perhaps not that many other ones :) , and there
> are some interesting initiatives, such as the crowdsourcing legislation
> platform Petteri has been involved in - Open Ministry
> http://openministry.info/ .
>
> Again, in all Nordic modesty, I don't want to say that what's happening in
> Finland is greatly fantastic, but at least some stories of how things got
> going, and where they are now, in Finland, could be helpful knowledge for
> others.
>
>
> Petteri:
> - Heather Broomfield is the data.norge.no coordinator.
> - Olav Øvrebø is a journalist and lecturer, having worked with open data
> topics for several years, and done a lot of open data related things.
> - Stathis Konstantinidis is the OKFN ambassador to Norway.
> - Svein-Magnus Sørensen is the oslo data meetup coordinator.
> - Christian Villum is one of the OKFN Local coordinators (from and in
> Denmark )
>
>
> So, meeting up is greatly encouraged, if there's time.
> (Sorry, again, for the late notification about this, from this end ).
>
> All the best,
>
> miska
>
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