Hi Folks,
I posted earlier about Open Knowledge Festival in Helsinki in September 2012. First some background information: We are delighted to announce that this years <http://okfestival.org/open-government-data-camp/> Open Government Data Camp and <http://okfestival.org/open-knowledge-conference> Open Knowledge Conference are joining to form a week-long celebration: the Open Knowledge Festival!¨ The 2012 theme of OKFestival is Open Knowledge in Action, looking at the value that can be generated by opening up knowledge, the ecosystems of organisations that can benefit from such sharing, and the impacts that transparency can have in our societies. What kinds of new professions, ideas and community initiatives can emerge within our governments, markets, networks and neighbourhoods as a result of these engagements? More information: http://okfestival.org/ I just posted proposal for Open Geodata Stream: Open Geodata stream will coverage two area: open geodata sources and tools to store, manipulate, visualize and sharing geographic information. Both areas will include topics for newbies and also GIS professionals. Open geodata sources will cover opening geodata and crowdsourced geodata. National Land Survey of Finland will told experiences about their topographic information data opening. We will invite also other European mapping agencies to participate and present to this event. OpenStreetMap is biggest crowdsources geodata source. Stream will include lectures and panel discussions, but also field exercise how to collect OpenStreetMap with GPS devices. Open Geodata needs also tools (ie computer software) to store, manipulate, visualize and share geographic information and maps. This part of the stream will include hands-on-exercises with commercial and open source software tools to work with open geodata. If you like to join organization team of Open Geodata Steam, please send email to me. If you like to present, you can send your proposal to http://okfestival.org/call-for-proposals/. Deadline for presentation is 1st of June, 2012. And if anybody from the Board of OSM Foundation is interested to participate, Finnish OSM and Open data activists will appreciate deeply. Regards, Pekka -- Pekka Sarkola Gispo Oy <mailto:pekka.sark...@gispo.fi> pekka.sark...@gispo.fi - GSM +358 40 725 2042 <http://www.gispo.fi> www.gispo.fi <http://www.paikkatieto.com> www.paikkatieto.com
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