[open-heritage] Announcing the Open Culture and Open Science Hack at OKFestival

Tue Aug 28 09:46:22 UTC 2012

For those who don't already know the Open Knowledge Foundation will be
running the world's first Open Knowledge Festival
<http://okfestival.org/>in under three weeks time in Helsinki,
Finland.

As part of the Cultural Heritage stream we will be running a hackday
on *Tuesday
18th September* in collaboration with the Open Knowledge Foundation's open
science team. Full details of this are now up on the OKFestival
website<http://okfestival.org/open-culture-and-science-hackday/>
.

There will be a host of activities including hacking on Finnish cultural
heritage datasets opened up specially for the festival, hacking on existing
tools (such as TEXTUS <http://textusproject.org>,
PyBossa<http://pybossa.com/>and
Pundit <http://thepund.it/>) as well as plenty of activities for non-coders
such as a Wikipedia edit-a-thon and an open video mash-up session.

For all those making the trip out to Helsinki, please *sign up
here*<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDZfTlFNaEpzOUlRbjQ3NjRoNkwyQ0E6MQ#gid=0>.
For those not able to make it there will be way of participating remotely,
more details to follow shortly.

All the best,
Sam

-- 
Sam Leon
Community Coordinator
Open Knowledge Foundation
http://okfn.org/
Twitter: @noeL_maS
Skype: samedleon
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