[Okfn-no] thoughts on the Nordic Cooperation calls?

Wed Jun 4 07:48:52 UTC 2014

Hello again everyone,

Many thanks for the feedback everyone.
I quite appreciate that you want to keep this going.

So, the call is in a few minutes.
If you'd like to be part, we'll be using skype ( sorry about the closed
tech, evil firewalls owing... ) .
Contact me - 'mknapek' on skype and I'll join you to the group call.

Thanks and all the best,

miska

On 2 June 2014 09:58, Broomfield, Heather <Heather.Broomfield at difi.no>
wrote:

>  Hi all
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> I am also very positive to continuing our cooperation and thank you so
> much Miska for facilitiating this and pushing us. I am very sorry that I
> haven’t been able to join recently, but I seem to have spent the last weeks
> on a plane.  Things are better now and I’m looking forward to our talk on
> Wednesday.
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> Best
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> Heather
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> *Fra:* Serdar Temiz [mailto:serdar at okfn.se]
> *Sendt:* 31. mai 2014 10:35
> *Til:* miska knapek; Christian Villum
> *Kopi:* 'Broomfield at webmail.crystone.net; Broomfield, Heather; Tryggvi
> BjöRgvinsson; 'serdar @ okfn . se'; Niels Erik Kaaber Rasmussen; Mattias;
> ØYstein ÅSnes; VeróNica Bluguermann; Okfn Dk; okfn-se at lists.okfn.org;
> 'okfn-no @ lists . okfn . org'; 'okfn-is @ lists . okfn . org'
> *Emne:* Re: thoughts on the Nordic Cooperation calls?
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> Dear All,
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> I would like to thank Miska for his great commitment and and Christian for
> the reply.
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> I am in to this cooperation and calls, and I think is is very good way to
> understand what is happening around and how we can cooperate. Sometimes one
> might not be available for skype call but next call that person can be and
> can follow discussion via meeting notes.
>
> I will be available for meetup this month if nothing urgent happens.
>
> We are already cooperating with Nordic Fi and we will be glad to cooperate
> to give Nordic Open Knowledge Awards all together. It is not launched yet
> but I have already registered domain http://okaward.org/  as well as got
> confirmation that Wikimedia Sweden will be part of it to organize it.
>
> Regards
>
> Serdar Temiz - Open Knowledge Foundation Ambassador in Sweden
>
> *On Tue May 27 13:02 , Christian Villum sent:*
>
>  Hi Miska, hi all,
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> I'm a big +1 on keeping this spark in the hay alive. While it may seem
> hard for all of us to squeeze in more "work" in our already crowded diaries
> (here too!), I do think there there is a lot to gain for all of our
> groupings by being in contact with each other. I even think that just
> having regular monthly or bi-monthly update-calls (without the need to
> start new projects together as the only purpose) would be really useful and
> give us all a sense of nordic unity (network-building, experience exchange,
> etc. - in other words, synergies!). If we can build such a basic network
> activity, then shared projects might grow from that later on in an organic
> fashion. First we build the foundation, later we (may) build the house.
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> Miska has been really great at getting this off the ground, but like all
> of us he's a volunteer and it should not fall on his shoulders alone to
> keep the fire burning :) In other words, to keep this basic nordic network
> afloat, it's up to us all to take a little share upon our shoulders and
> show some enthusiasm! In the nordics we have so much potential to work
> together and be connected, and it would be such a pity if we indirectly
> isolate ourselves by not chatting every now and then. It will not require a
> lot of work from each of us if we all chip in with a little effort (for
> instance by attending the update calls every month or every second month).
> That simple engagement will bring us a long way, I'm sure!
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> I would love to hear from all countries/people in this thread about what
> you think and whether you are up for being part in taking this forward - or
> whether we should stop filling up your inbox :) (asking to be dropped from
> the thread is quite okay of course, frankness goes a long way).
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> All the best from sunny Copenhagen,
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> -Christian
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> --
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> International Community Manager
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> On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 11:14 AM, miska knapek <contactmiska at knapek.org>
> wrote:
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> Dear Nordic bunch,
>
> Hope you’re all doing well.
>
> I regret that people were unavailable and that there was only three of us
> during the last Open Knowledge Nordics online meetup. I guess it’s a busy
> time of year for all of us.
>
> In any event, I think there is much to gain from keeping contact and
> collaborating. All projects start slow - but think there’s much good that
> can come out of this collaboration. I’m not saying this because I’m getting
> paid for this to succeed or that there’s some ego issue. I’m using my spare
> time to try help openness projects, and I think this one can have a lot of
> good in it.
>
> In the Nordic countries we’ve got a lot of similarities that can help us
> work together, and also different situations, which we can help to develop
> knowledge and practices for open practice.
> There's quite a number of projects coming up that we could collaborate on.
> Already now OKF Finland and Sweden are collaborating on the FOIa platform
> Froide (Iceland - teeempted yet?).
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> What do you guys think?
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> Does it make sense to continue collaborating?
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> What would you suggest that we do to improve the collaboration?
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> The next call should be on Wednesday the 4th June, 10:00 CET.
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> Hope people will be there.
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> yours,
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> miska
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