[WikiEN-l] Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) in London on 24th April 2010

[Michael Peel]

Hi all,

The Wikimedia UK AGM will also be taking place at this conference.  
All are welcome - the more the merrier!
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/2010_AGM

If you want to vote on the election and motions, then you'll need to  
be a member - but it's quick and easy to join if you haven't already:
http://tinyurl.com/JoinWMUK

Due to the volcano, we're not entirely sure yet who from Wikimedia  
will be speaking - we had previously arranged for Jan-Bart (WMF),  
Jose (WMNL) and Hay (WMNL) to speak about education, libraries and  
the Tropenmuseum respectively, but that depends on whether they can  
get across the channel...

If anyone wants any assistance with travel (within the UK) and/or the  
registration fee, or would be interested in giving a talk, please let  
me know.

Thanks,
Mike Peel
Wikimedia UK

On 14 Apr 2010, at 19:30, Jonathan Gray wrote:

> Hi,
>
> A quick reminder that this year's Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) is
> taking place in London on 24th April 2010 - in 10 days time! There are
> still tickets left - and you can register at the following link:
>
>   http://www.okfn.org/okcon/register/
>
> Speakers and sessions include:
>
>   * 'State of the Nation' Keynotes:
>      - Matthias Schindler, Wikimedia (Germany) on 'Bibliographic Data
> and the Public Domain'
>      - Glyn Moody, on the 'Post-Analogue World'
>      - Peter Murray-Rust, on 'Recent Developments in Open Science'
>      - Chris Taggart, on 'Open Local Government Data'
>      - Sören Auer, on 'Linked Open Data'
>      - Jordan Hatcher, on 'Open Licensing for Data'
>   * Ideas and Culture with talks on analyzing 'Dickens Letters' and
> 'Making the Physical from the Digital'
>   * Open Bibliographic Information with talks on 'The Itinerant Poetry
> Library' and the 'Journal Commons'
>   * Community Driven Research with talks on 'Climate data' and 'Open
> Archaeology'
>   * Civic Information with talks on 'Using Open Government Data to
> Profile Politicians' and the 'Straight Choice'
>   * Open Government Data and PSI in the EU which looks at the current
> state of play in France, Norway, Germany, the UK and elsewhere
>   * Tools with talks on 'Large-scale data handling and revisioning'
> with the Genome, Ontowiki, CKAN and more
>   * Open Data and the Semantic Web with talks about South Korean
> DBPedia and Thesaurus Management Tool ‘Pool Party’
>   * Open Data in International Development including talks from
> PublishWhatYouFund and on OpenStreetMap in Haiti
>
> Further details are available at:
>
>   http://blog.okfn.org/2010/04/14/okcon-2010-nearly-here-24th- 
> april-2010-in-london/
>   http://www.okfn.org/okcon/programme
>
> More information:
>
>   * Main conference page: http://www.okfn.org/okcon/
>   * FAQ: http://www.okfn.org/okcon/faq
>
> If you have any questions please email Sara Wingate-Gray at  
> sara.gray at okfn.org.
>
> We look forward to seeing people there!
>
> All the best,
>
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Jonathan Gray
>
> Community Coordinator
> The Open Knowledge Foundation
> http://blog.okfn.org
>
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>
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