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

[miska knapek]

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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