[Okfn-se] thoughts on the Nordic Cooperation calls?

Wed Jun 4 12:11:09 UTC 2014

Congrats Tryggvi!

And thanks for the info and notes, Miska. Was a great call today, really
interesting to hear about all the different projects and also see a couple
of new faces. Thanks all!

-Christian

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On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 2:03 PM, miska knapek <contactmiska at knapek.org>
wrote:

> Hey Tryggvi,
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> Thanks for the note :)
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> Well, perhaps we should think about doodling our way to a more convenient
> time for all of us.
> Christian Villum tends to be on a train when we have our call :)
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> We'll look into this later. ... err... soon.
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> For now:
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> - There's another call, on Wednesday the 18th - at a time to be determined
> - about figuring out how to start a Nordic School of Data:
> I'll make more noise about that soon. But for now, if you're interesting
> in attending, please put your details here:
> http://pad.okfn.org/p/okfn_nordics_hangout_pad
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> - There are notes from the call today, in the pad, below the following
> line:
> http://pad.okfn.org/p/okfn_nordics_hangout_pad
> ------------------------   *Notes from the meeting on the 2014.06.04
> <2014.06.04> : 10:00 Central European Time   *- - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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> Thanks and all the best - looking forward to hearing you soon!
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> On 4 June 2014 11:18, Tryggvi Björgvinsson <tryggvi.bjorgvinsson at okfn.org>
> wrote:
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>> As you probably all notice I'm not joining (since I'm not there). I'm
>> going to spend the time with my one day old daughter instead.
>>
>> I would still very much like to join future calls (thanks for organising
>> Miska).
>>
>> Just a note. The timing will cause me to be a little late over the summer
>> time because my other daughter's preschool starts at the same time.
>> On 2014 6 4 07:49, "miska knapek" <contactmiska at knapek.org> wrote:
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>>> 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
>>>
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>>> On 2 June 2014 09:58, Broomfield, Heather <Heather.Broomfield at difi.no>
>>> wrote:
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>>>>  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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Heather
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *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.
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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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>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> Christian Villum
>>>> International Community Manager
>>>>
>>>> skype: christianvillum  |  @villum <http://www.twitter.com/villum>
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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?
>>>>
>>>> Does it make sense to continue collaborating?
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> Hope people will be there.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> yours,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> miska
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