Hi all,
If you are planning on attending both the AGM and the conference,
then please register as soon as possible at:
You can also register on the day, but registering online is strongly
encouraged.
Again, if you want help with the registration fee (£20+a booking
fee), or travel to the event, please let me know. As a general
guideline, requests from WMUK members for covering the registration
fee are likely to be accepted, whilst travel expenses will probably
only be covered if there is a clear need.
Hope to see lots of you at the AGM on Saturday.
Mike
On 20 Apr 2010, at 12:56, Michael Peel wrote:
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 19:29, 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(a)okfn.org.
We look forward to seeing people there!
All the best,
--
Jonathan Gray
Community Coordinator
The Open Knowledge Foundation
http://blog.okfn.org
http://twitter.com/jwyg
http://identi.ca/jwyg
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