[open-development] OKFEST: Helsinki OKFest preparations

Mon Jun 4 09:23:53 UTC 2012

Hello all

Thanks Claudia for encouraging action on this. Quick updates for everyone:

I've updated the pad at
http://opengovernmentdata.okfnpad.org/open-development-okfest2012 with
space for us to start planning each of the individual sessions and
activities, including an NGO outreach and 'family meeting'. Please create
pads and start inputting to any sessions you are/want to be involved in.

I've started the 'open development and aid' session planning in a pad here
http://okfnpad.org/okfest-opendev-aid and would welcome input.

There is a draft brief to get funding for participants from the South here:
http://bit.ly/L61Lm0 - please take a look, add comments, or adapt and use
to go to your contacts to encourage them to engage. OKFest registration
opens on *14th June, *and is likely to fill up quickly.

Those are the quick bits, more thoughts in-line below:

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Claudia Schwegmann <
claudia.schwegmann at openaid.de> wrote:

>  Dear all
>
> Thanks for all the efforts people make for an exciting event in Helsinki!
>
> There have not been updates to the OKFest Ether pad since the conference
> call on the 16th of Mai and I am wondering what the status is.
> My understanding is that there are a couple of important decisions to be
> taken soon (overall theme, speaker) - are there some news on this?
>
> *NGO outreach:* I am very interested to help with an outreach event on
> IATI and open development for NGOs in the region. I met Taina Hanhikoshky
> from the Kehys NGO network from Finnland last week, a representative from
> the Estonian NGO platfrom and from the Eastern European NGO Network
> Trialog. Particularly Taina seemed very interested. Who else is interested
> in organising such an outreach event? Mika? Others?
>
> *Hackday - sector specific?:* There is a proposal for a hackday and a
> sector specific event. Are people interested in a sector specific event? I
> could imagine that the Action for Global Health network or the
> Landcoalition may be interesting partners in this respect. What do other
> people think? What are the plans for the hackday so far?
>

Land Coalition have put in some great submissions to the second round of
sessions, so it would be great to explore a Land Coalition element to the
hack-day sessions. I believe for Pernilla there needed to be an aid data
focus to some of it to help get Sida support, but I may be wrong on that...

>
> *"Family meeting": *Some time ago Tim and I discussed that it would be
> good to have a more internal meeting  in Helsinki with people in this
> community on what we understand by open development and how we can work
> together in a better way. Is there some appetite for this? Maybe even a
> nice evening event? Or to have such a discussion during the visit of the
> Plan offices?
>

Definitely sounds like a good idea. I like the idea of having the focussed
discussions about what we do during a visit to the Plan offices - as it
takes us out of the OKFest organised chaos, to have a bit more space for
discussion, and then perhaps we can also, once the wider calendar of
evening events becomes clear, plan for one evening just agreeing to all
head for a meal somewhere together.

All the best

Tim
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