[Open-transport] Open Transport and OKCon

Thu Jun 20 09:52:36 UTC 2013

Very good point, thanks - in my circumstances (different job now to last
year), I'm liable to pay the full whack... But yes, this might not be the
case for everyone else.

P
On 20 Jun 2013 09:41, "Rufus Pollock" <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:

> On 19 June 2013 21:15, Peter Hicks <peter.hicks at poggs.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> On 19/06/13 20:52, Hannes Gassert wrote:
>>
>>> I just realized that there's basically nothing from the core of this
>>> group here in the schedule of http://okcon.org!
>>>
>>> There'll be the Geneva transportation agency who's going to launch a
>>> realtime API (pssst..), the http://transport.opendata.ch folks are
>>> hanging around (same people that are building Switzerland's federal data
>>> portal), and there's http://www.citysdk.eu - but no clear date or place
>>> were the open transport community could meet, exchange ideas and maybe
>>> create a pull request or two.
>>>
>>> I think we should do a mini-unconference inside the conference ..
>>> everybody comes together, we collect topics, split, coordinate, come back
>>> together, voilà - for me personally there's a clear need for such a thing.
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>>
>> I like the idea... but attending the conference is €€€ this time and
>> there's not a dedicated transport track to follow.
>>
>
> @Peter: just on this point, can I clarify - conference attendance costs
> are *less* than last year - the base ticket is €75 (and travel London -
> Geneva is, from what I can tell, cheaper than London - Helsinki :-) )
>
> We'd really like to ensure folks aren't excluded because of cost issues
> wherever possible ...
>
> Rufus
>
> I am in favour of having an Open Transport weekend somewhere in Europe
>> separate from OKCon - maybe we can do a Saturday and Sunday similar to what
>> we did at OKF last year...?
>>
>>
>> Peter
>>
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