[open-archaeology] open-archaeology Digest, Vol 23, Issue 1

[Patrick Hadley]

Dear all,
in the past weeks there has been an informal exchange of e-mails among 
people interested in proposing a session on "Open Data in Archaeology" 
at this year's Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon), the major event 
organised by OKFN taking place this year in Helsinki: 
http://okfestival.org/ ‒ the whole event is September 17-22, 2012 but 
OKCon will take only 2 days (in case you were already thinking "oh but 
Finland is sooo expensive, 5 days are too much!").

You can find more details and comments at 
http://archeo.okfnpad.org/okcon2012 and feel free to add yours: every 
small bit matters.

Several people are interested and think it would be a Very Good Idea™ to 
do this. But we also think it would be much better if one person (or 
even more than one!) could stand as a coordinator for submitting the 
proposal, collecting everyone's feedback and making this happen as a 
really comprehensive and relevant event where archaeologists can talk to 
each other and to other researchers doing open data in a friendly 
environment.

There are some institutions and projects you'll see, that's also nice ‒ 
even though everyone but me is from the UK. I am personally too busy: 
taking this effort would some up with lots of others and I would just 
end up doing a bad job at many of them.

I am looking forward to volunteers who will take on this initiative, and 
I am available to give any further information they might need (either 
on this mailing list or via private e-mail).

All the best, ciao
steko