[open-data-day] Open Data Day was great

Tue Feb 26 13:24:45 GMT 2013

Hi Ton,

That's great news about your event in Poland and work within the community. Thanks for sharing the link and update regarding Italy too.

Next year will be here before you know it!

Mary Beth
@bethmaru
Open Data Ottawa

On 2013-02-26, at 7:40 AM, Ton Zijlstra <ton.zijlstra at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi David, all,
> 
> Just a short mail to say I think Open Data Day was awesome again. It seems as if the timing (end of Feb) created a lot more energy than the previous December dates. 
> 
> I was glad to see that even though I could myself only be in one place (Warsaw), my efforts to get others moving paid off in events happening in Copenhagen (DK) and in Enschede (NL) my home town. In Warsaw we brought together over 50 coders, and some international guests from the ePSIplatform conference the day before.
> 
> And did you see that in Italy various government bodies used Open Data Day to launch their own open data initiatives?: 3 new local and regional portals, the Italian Senate opening up a Linked Data portal to release parliamentary data, and one region releasing all their geodata. All in collaboration with Italy's Open Street Map and the local open data community. See http://epsiplatform.eu/content/italian-open-data-day-deluge
> 
> Already looking forward to next year's edition!
> 
> best,
> Ton
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