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okfn_nordics_call_march_05_2014_notes_in_progress
{ Inter-Nordic Open Data/Knowledge call - 2014.03.05 - notes }
(ps. the next call is on 2nd April 2014 )
( please use the original pad for planning notes : http://pad.okfn.org/p/okfn_nordics_hangout_pad )
Participants:
- - Tryggvi Björgvinsson ( OKFN Iceland )
- - Heather Broomfield ( DIGFI Norway )
- - Christian Villum ( OKFN Local / Denmark )
- - Miska Knapek ( open knowledge enthusiast : Denmark/Finland )
- - Though fighting a firewall : Niels Erik Kaaber Rasmussen ( OKFN Denmark )
- Heather:
There'll be a Data Journalis event in May sometime.
More details will be posted when it's been officially decided.
- http://www.meetup.com/osloopendata/
- The Data Jouranlism Day will have OKFN's School of Data visiting
- and giving tutorials, both at an advanced and beginner level.
- Also, the hope is to have provide School of Data teaching internally for public sector workers.
- Christian
- Stathis : Heather, please shoot Stathis a note. Christian Can help ping Stathis.
- Great plan that someone from civil society in .no takes a stand too.
- All .no initiators doesn’t need to be OKFN - others can be involved too. I.e. Øystein who's been involved in organising the Open Data Meetup in Oslo could help from a
- Could we collaborate on School of Data.
Tryggvi:
- Goes to Stockholm to talk about open data.
- Apparently the Swedes are really quite organised regarding open data.
( The rest of us look forward to hearing more about the Swedes ;).
- Some financial data getting opened soon in Iceland.
Christian:
- - Keep the calls going on a regular periodic basis...?
- - Possibilities for collaboration?
- - Getting Norway Local Group more active - for instance reaching out to community at http://www.meetup.com/osloopendata/
Heather:
- - School of Data could be interesting.
- - Try lobby for similar kinds of datasets be available in the Nordic countries.
- - Has a Open Data secondary-school teaching contact in Italy, will forward contacts.
Miska :
- - Agrees School of Data would be great to collaborate on.
- - Mentions a Finnish project : an Open Data/Knowledge Course for university teachers, to integrate Open Data/Knowledge thinking into the teacher's own specific domain.
- - Mentions some possible ideas that could be collaborated on across the Nordic countries.
Christian:
- - Let's schedule a next call.
- - Periodic - first wednesday of the month? So next call Wednesday April 2 @ 10.00 CET
For next time:
- ( - Let's try doing these calls periodically! )
- - Let's try get Sweden onboard as well - and maybe generally more people.
- - In regards to looking at similar datasets, across the Nordic countries, that we can collaboratively lobby to open.
- - I suggest that we only have one pad! Less is more ~apoikola