[open-development] Location for an open development fringe event after OKFestival

Wed Mar 19 07:56:03 UTC 2014

Great news about the tech and the dosh! Very happy for you to go ahead and book.

Sarah

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From: Claudia Schwegmann <claudia.schwegmann at openaid.de> 
Date:18/03/2014  11:27 AM  (GMT+00:00) 
To: OKF Development List <open-development at lists.okfn.org> 
Subject: Re: [open-development] Location for an open development fringe event after OKFestival 

Hi all
Thanks for the feedback so far and for the great news from Katelyn: I think using the funds for this purpose sounds like a very good idea. 

As for Sarah's question about technical options. 
They have W-Lan VDSL 50 (50 MBit/s Downstream and 10 MBit/s Upstream). I had to fill out a questionnaire to reserve the room and remember there were questions about beamers etc. So I don't think it is a problem at all!

Please shout now if you are against using the okf open dev group money for the room. If I don't hear objections I will book it on friday!

Cheers
Claudia

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2014-03-18 12:18 GMT+01:00 Ben Taylor <btaylor at twaweza.org>:
I don't know about anyone else, but I think Katelyn's idea sounds great. We can use the OKFN funds (for which I don't think we have any other purpose in mind).

If others also support the idea, I suggest that Claudia should go ahead and confirm the Wikimedia space for Thursday 18 July. We can firm up what exactly we use the day for between now and July, or even at the conference itself as themes and loose ends emerge. 

But I would love to hear others' thoughts as well.

Best wishes,
Ben

On 18 March 2014 07:59, Katelyn Rogers <katelyn.rogers at okfn.org> wrote:
Hi, 

Thanks Claudia for getting this organised. Each active working group has access to 150 pounds to spend on activities like this. As Open Development has not spent their allocated budget for this year (which ends in May) we could potentially combine the budget from this year and next year to provide a combined total of 300 pounds (360 euros) for the event, which would be enough for the venue and maybe some (very) light refreshments.  

Hope that helps and let me know if the group would be interested in using the funds in this way! 

All the best,
Katelyn 

On 17 March 2014 17:23, Sarah.Louise.johns <sarah.louise.johns at gmail.com> wrote:
Hello just catching up on discussions re OKF 14. Both your and Tim's opportunities for extra open dev meetups sound great and I'd be up for it.

Do you know what options there are to connect with virtual audiences in these rooms? So for example do they have video conferencing facilities, or great internet connections for online hosting? Just thinking about whether there's an opportunity to bring in virtual audiences to these sessions? 

I'd echo Ben's comment re paying - what would your expectation in that respect?

Cheers, 

Sarah

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From: Claudia Schwegmann 
Date:17/03/2014 11:04 AM (GMT+00:00) 
To: OKF Development List 
Subject: [open-development] Location for an open development fringe event	after OKFestival 

Hi all

As mentioned on our call last week, Wikimedia is offering five rooms with an overall capacity of 190 people in a central location for 300 Euros on the 18th of July. They are blocking the rooms for us for the time being. You can see the rooms in this flyer:

file:///C:/Users/Claudia/Downloads/Wikimedia%20Deutschland%20-%20Brosch%C3%BCre%20-%20Offene%20R%C3%A4ume%20KLEIN%20(2).pdf

I have not seen the rooms, but I heard they are really nice.

How do people feel about this opportunity? Do we have sufficient people interested in an extra day? Should we ask for less space?  Does the location seem good? Is it too early to confirm the booking? 

Best
Claudia

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