Dear Everyone @OKfest, Its a great festival I have ever learnt!!! Though I was not physically attend the event, I had followed it virtually...
I express my sincere thanks to the organisers and the participants of OKfest. Thanks & Regards Sridhar __________________________________________________________ Sridhar Gutam PhD, ARS, Patent Laws (NALSAR), IP & Biotech. (WIPO) Senior Scientist (Plant Physiology) Central Institute for Subtropical Horticulture <http://www.cishlko.org> Joint Secretary, Agricultural Research Service Scientists' Forum<http://www.icar.org.in/en/node/1168> Convener, Open Access India <https://www.facebook.com/oaindia> Rehmankhera, Kakori Post Lucknow 227107, Uttar Pradesh, India Phone: +91-522-2841022/23/24; Fax: +91-522-2841025 Mobile:+91-9005760036/8005346136 Publications: http://works.bepress.com/sridhar_gutam/ <http://goo.gl/EQAwr> <https://www.facebook.com/gutamsridhar> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/sridhargutam> <http://twitter.com/gutam2000><http://works.bepress.com/sridhar_gutam/rss.html> On 9 October 2012 04:13, Kat Braybrooke <[email protected]> wrote: > Puneet, > > Thank you so much. Such nice words to read! I'm CC'ing my colleagues also > on the Core Organising Team - Juha, Jussi, Antti, Massimo and Petri - so > they can read this too. The venue was a collective decision amongst all of > us along with the core partners (the Open Knowledge Foundation, the Finnish > Insitute in London, and Aalto Media Factory), and we were aided by a team > of extremely talented spatial and graphic design students (also CC'd) at > the university who worked for months to make it feel like a real gathering > space. > > I know everyone on the organising team will really appreciate your > enthusiasm for the event. It was an amazing project for all of us to be > involved in, the community of guest organisers were extremely inspiring, > and we were blown away by how great the atmosphere was during the week. > That positivity was really due to participants like yourself who came from > all over the world to spend a week building new things, sharing ideas and > getting to know new people. > > So thank you again for your kind words, and for joining us - looking > forward to seeing you and the rest of the tribe next time. > > Kat > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > | Kat Braybrooke | London, UK > | The Open Knowledge Foundation <http://okfn.org/> > | Coordinator of OKFestival 2012 <http://okfestival.org/> & Regional > Groups <http://okfn.org/chapters> > | Twitter @kat_braybrooke <http://twitter.com/kat_braybrooke> | Skype > @ardent_coeur > > > > > > On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 9:30 PM, Puneet Kishor <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Karsten's email inspires me to chime in with what has been on my mind >> since Helsinki. It was a job very well done by the organizing committee. A >> festival (doesn't feel right calling it a conference; festival is indeed >> the correct term) that stands out as one of the very few in the past many >> years that I learned from and also enjoyed thoroughly. >> >> As a new Creative Commons employee, and one attending OKFestival for the >> first time, I was so heartened at seeing what I kept on calling in mind, >> "My community, my tribe." It is usually fun though not challenging to hang >> out with those who agree with you, but this was different -- I found all >> the different streams I attended both fun *and* challenging. >> >> Oh, and please let me know who thought of hosting the event at that Aalto >> School of Design -- I need to buy that person a beer as recognition for a >> most inspired decision. The space embodied everything that the event was >> about, or vice versa. >> >> Puneet. >> >> On Oct 8, 2012, at 12:57 PM, Kat Braybrooke <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > Thanks very much for that, Karsten. Really appreciated you being there, >> and >> > it's great to hear you had a good time! We'll be sending out a thank you >> > email and recap post via the Open Knowledge Foundation later this week >> > ourselves :) >> > >> > Kat >> > >> > .. >> > >> > >> > >> > On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 10:48 PM, Karsten Gerloff <[email protected] >> >wrote: >> > >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> >> >> I just wanted to let you know that I found the Open Knowledge >> >> Festival in Helsinki really wonderful. Lots of interesting people >> >> and topics - much more than I could absorb, in fact, and I wish I >> >> would have had more time there. >> >> >> >> Great job, everyone! Keep up the good work. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Best regards, >> >> Karsten >> >> .. >> >> >> -- >> Puneet Kishor >> _______________________________________________ >> okfn-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss >> > > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > >
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