[open-science] [Open-access] Fwd: [OKFest-Coord] Finnish contact person to each stream

Tom Olijhoek tom.olijhoek at gmail.com
Tue Mar 20 15:39:44 UTC 2012


Hi Laura,

I would love to be involved in the planning of the openScience/open access
topic for the OKFest.
Please add me to your list of candidates

greetings

TOM

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Laura Newman <laura.newman at okfn.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> If you haven't yet heard, this year's Open Knowledge Festival will take
> place in Helsinki in September. See: http://okfestival.org/
>
> Plans are currently being developed, and it would be great if we could put
> an exciting Open Science and Open Access stream together. We have begun to
> outline potential topics and suggest speakers we may wish to invite at
> http://science.okfnpad.org/OKFest. Please do add your thoughts!
>
> The organising committee have requested that individual streams should
> have one or two main contact people, plus a small organising team [see
> email below]. I am happy to act as one of the main contact people if you
> would be happy with that, and would love a couple of people to join me!
>
> Please let me know if you would like to be involved with the planning at
> this stage. To stay in the loop with the organising committee, you can also
> join the okfestival-coord mailing list here:
> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfestival-coord.
>
> Finally, please do reserve the dates in your diary. We hope that many of
> you may be able to join us in Helsinki in September!
>
> All the best,
> Laura
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Juha Huuskonen <juha.huuskonen at finnish-institute.org.uk>
> Date: Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 1:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [OKFest-Coord] Finnish contact person to each stream
> To: okfestival-coord at lists.okfn.org
>
>
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> About developing the streams further -
>
> Some streams (like Open data in Aid and Development and GLAM) have already
> several people involved and some concrete ideas about the format/content of
> the stream. Some streams are currently just ideas suggested by someone on
> this list.
>
> To get a better overview of the current situation, could you please update
> the info about your stream at our Etherpad page:
> http://okfestival.okfnpad.org/**helsinki<http://okfestival.okfnpad.org/helsinki>
>
> The format could be something like this:
>
> *# open GLAM / Open Cultural Data
> *
> short-description-here
> Responsible persons (1-2): NNN, ZZZ
> People who are willing on be involved in organising this stream: NNN, ZZZ
> People interested in this stream: NNN, ZZZ
>
> - - - -
>
> Or alternatively for the streams that are just ideas:
>
> *# name-of-the-stream*
> short-description-here
> I'm looking for more people to get involved in this - please write your
> name + email here, or give a shout on the email list!
> Suggested by: NNNN
>
> - - -
>
> It would be great if each stream could nominate 1-2 people to be the main
> contact persons, this will make programme planning and various
> organisational matters more smooth. And yes, it would be great if each
> stream would have one person from Helsinki (or from elsewhere in Finland)
> involved.
>
> The programme planning will happen as a dialogue between the organising
> committee, advisory board and the groups of people responsible for the
> streams. We are currently not sure if we set up a separate programme
> planning list, or whether we use this list for the planning discussions.
>
> The OKFest Call for Proposals will be published soon, in the call we will
> ask people to give a more concrete suggestion about the format/content of
> the stream. When we send out the call we will also give you more
> information about the venues we have, and some suggestions of possible
> programme formats (we hope that people would suggest some non-traditional
> programme formats). Me and other members of the organising team will help
> you to make these suggestions, and we can talk about them here.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Juha.
>
> OKfest coordinator / Helsinki
>
>
> On 3/20/12 12:49 PM, Sam Leon wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I fully support the idea of having a Finnish contact person for each
>> stream!
>>
>> Does this person then also part of the general planning committee?
>>
>> Sam
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 7:51 AM, Maarten Brinkerink <
>> mbrinkerink at beeldengeluid.nl <mailto:mbrinkerink@**beeldengeluid.nl<mbrinkerink at beeldengeluid.nl>>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>    Great idea. For the GLAM stream I agree Sanne would be great. Have
>>    worked with her before.
>>
>>    Best,
>>
>>    Maarten
>>
>>    Op 19 mrt 2012, om 17:57 heeft Daniel Dietrich het volgende
>>    geschreven:
>>
>>    > Very good point. This is very useful. I guess you could also
>>    share contact details on request.
>>    >
>>    > Daniel
>>    >
>>    >
>>    >
>>    > On 19.03.2012, at 18:18, Antti Poikola wrote:
>>    >
>>    >> Hi,
>>    >>
>>    >> Just an idea that came to my mind while scannign trough the
>>    stream/session suggestions.
>>    >>
>>    >> I think it might be possible to find one Helsinki based contact
>>    person (outside the core organizing team) for each suggested
>>    streams. At the moment I'm bit woried that there are not so many
>>    finns involved in organizing the streams.
>>    >>
>>    >> Below some name dropping just from top of my head:
>>    >>
>>    >>
>>    >> OKCon
>>    >> - Open Science / Access
>>    >> http://www.openaccess.fi/info/**english.html<http://www.openaccess.fi/info/english.html>
>>    >> Marjut Salokannel (University of Helsinki; marjut.salokannel
>>    [at] helsinki.fi <http://helsinki.fi>)
>>
>>    >>
>>    >> - open GLAM / Open Cultural Data (with side event)
>>    >> Sanna Marttila
>>    >>
>>    >> - open Economic WG
>>    >>
>>    >>
>>    >> OGDCamp
>>    >> - Open Data in Business Research Stream
>>    >> - Academic stream on OD research
>>    >> - Open Data in Development Aid
>>    >> Juha Mustonen (Foreign Ministry)
>>    >>
>>    >> - Open Transport Data (with hackday?)
>>    >> Jari Honkonen (HSL)
>>    >>
>>    >> - Parliamentary informatics
>>    >> http://www.kansanmuisti.fi/**about/contact/<http://www.kansanmuisti.fi/about/contact/>
>>    >> Juha Yrjölä
>>    >>
>>    >> - Open spending
>>    >> Henri Ahti
>>    >>
>>    >>
>>    >>
>>    >> On 19.3.2012 13:55, Daniel Dietrich wrote:
>>    >>> Amazing! This looks really good already.
>>    >>>
>>    >>> Daniel
>>    >>>
>>    >>> On 19.03.2012, at 12:02, Laura Newman wrote:
>>    >>>
>>    >>>> Hi all,
>>    >>>>
>>    >>>> Sorry to be late introducing myself - I'm Laura Newman,
>>    another Community Coordinator at the Open Knowledge Foundation.
>>    I'm particularly involved in Open Science, Open Access and Open
>>    Research type groups. Hi everyone!
>>    >>>>
>>    >>>> I think we should include a strong Open Science stream at
>>    OKFest this year. I met with Peter Murray-Rust and Jenny Molloy
>>    yesterday, and we began to gather initial ideas in an etherpad:
>>    >>>>
>>    >>>> http://science.okfnpad.org/**OKFest<http://science.okfnpad.org/OKFest>
>>    >>>>
>>    >>>> I have outlined some of our suggestions below. It would be
>>    great to hear other people's ideas for sessions and get feedback.
>>    There are so many exciting developments around Open Science and
>>    Open Access at the moment, I think we could pull together a
>>    fantastic programme. Please do add your ideas!
>>    >>>>
>>    >>>> All the best,
>>    >>>> Laura
>>    >>>>
>>    >>>>
>>    >>>> ## Topics for sessions within the main conference:
>>    >>>>
>>    >>>> Open Approaches to Research
>>    >>>> Immediate access to raw data from experiments - why and how?
>>    >>>> Sharing data - Mark Hahnel?
>>    >>>>
>>    >>>> Communicating Science
>>    >>>> Wikipedia and Scientists
>>    >>>>
>>    >>>> Open Science in Action
>>    >>>> Open Source Drug Discovery - India  *Possible keynote speaker??*
>>    >>>> Open Clinical Trial Data
>>    >>>>
>>    >>>> Open Access (Cross Stream with Humanities? - to take place on
>>    a separate day from Open Science events?)
>>    >>>> Using open access materials to communicate science
>>    >>>> Funding open access sustainably - journals and funders (Tim
>>    Hubbard, Robert Kiley)
>>    >>>>
>>    >>>> Citizen Science/Cyberscience (Cross Stream with Open
>>    Development?)
>>    >>>> Mobile phone data collection
>>    >>>> RNA folding http://eterna.cmu.edu/eterna_**page.php?page=me_tab<http://eterna.cmu.edu/eterna_page.php?page=me_tab>
>>    >>>>
>>    >>>> ## Other Ideas
>>    >>>> * Drafting session for Open Data in Science Handbook / Open
>>    Research Data Handbook. Running over two days with short kick off
>>    session.
>>    >>>> * A scheduled open science social might be nice to get
>>    everyone in the same place. Perhaps the evening before main open
>>    science events take place? Gather in a restaurant/for drinks?
>>    >>>> * Will there be an exhibition space? If so, we should
>>    advertise the working group to  people who are browsing around in
>>    the breaks  etc. Maybe some Panton  Principles posters/flyers,
>>    some screen dumps and  photos of our main  projects etc.
>>    >>>>
>>    >>>> ## Outside the main conference - Satellite event ?
>>    >>>> * An open science workshop day/hackday  (outside of the main
>>    conference dates - perhaps during OGD camp?)
>>    >>>> * Kick off with a couple of speakers followed by some
>>    lightning talks
>>    >>>> * Split into groups to work on specific ideas,
>>    >>>> * Come back together at the end for demos/presentations.
>>    >>>> * Will there be space for this to take place in the main
>>    building, or will we need to find an alternative location?
>>    >>>>
>>    >>>>
>>    >>>>
>>    >>>>
>>    >>>> --
>>    >>>> Laura Newman
>>    >>>> Community Coordinator
>>    >>>> Open Knowledge Foundation
>>    >>>> http://okfn.org/
>>    >>>> Skype: lauranewmanonskype
>>    >>>> Twitter: @Newmanlk
>>    >>>>
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>> >
>>
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>>
>> --
>> Sam Leon
>> Community Coordinator
>> Open Knowledge Foundation
>> http://okfn.org/
>> Twitter: @noeL_maS
>> Skype: samedleon
>>
>>
>>
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>
> --
> Laura Newman
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> Open Knowledge Foundation
> http://okfn.org/
> Skype: lauranewmanonskype
> Twitter: @Newmanlk
>
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