Agreed with Lucy - definitely a great idea. Seems like the only question is how to implement it - and while the regional groups could be an equally useful place to start, given that they're still a bit fledgling and that many of us are (as noted) traveling often and therefore not sure how to access the other regional groups or know if they're active, I wonder if there is a tool (like a calendar, but more collaborative) that everyone could use if they want to engage with other open data folk in a city they're visiting.
I'm going to give it more thought now! | Kat Braybrooke* *| Community Coordinator | Open Knowledge Foundation, London UK | Engage: http://okfn.org | Tweet: @OKFN <http://twitter.com/OKFN>, @kat_braybrooke <http://twitter.com/kat_braybrooke> On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Peter Murray-Rust <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Jonathan Gray <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Great idea Lucy. > > > Agreed. Excellent if we can make it work. > > >> Perhaps one thing we could do is have a regular >> round-up of groups, lists, meetups and initiatives? Like a digest of >> 'open knowledge community bulletin'? E.g. a monthly post on >> blog.okfn.org + okfn-discuss with: >> >> * an overview of local chapters / groups / lists + planned activities >> * a list of upcoming open knowledge / open content / open data related >> events >> * an overview of OKF working groups and planned (online) meetups and >> events >> >> > This is along the lines of what I suggested when people asked for ideas for > newcomers to OKFN. A regional resource is something most people can relate > to very quickly and also something fairly easy to start working on. That way > people will get to know each other by discovering each other locally. > > >> At first this would probably require a fair degree of effort, but if >> it was useful to people then it might get easier. Having the OKF >> community actively scouting these things out would help. >> >> For now I guess okfn-discuss is the main channel for 'hey who's in >> country X?' type shout outs, and everyone at the OKF can help out in >> introducing people to people. We should also have a better overview of >> OKF regional lists, which I think Kat is working on? I don't know if >> country/city groups might also help, e.g.: >> http://okfn.org/groups/open-knowledge-london/ >> >> J. >> >> I know that some scientists use Dopplr, but AFAIK this is untargetted - > you advertise to the whole world. The point is that you don't know who is > "out there". I know people who have met others through Dopplr. And there are > times when I have been marooned in a hotel bar when I am sure there are > people out there. > > I live most of my life in the open, but for some reason I have been > reluctant to give spacetime coordinates. Maybe I should change? For example > I am travelling later this year to Madrid, Thailand, Beijing and Singapore. > Probably fairly busy in most (but not Thailand). > > I don't think Google Calendar works. several thousand people will clog it > up. It needs geo-coordinates. Does OKF-Dopplr mak sense? > > P. > > -- > Peter Murray-Rust > Reader in Molecular Informatics > Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry > University of Cambridge > CB2 1EW, UK > +44-1223-763069 > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > >
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