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You may have noticed from the buzz on the
Web that the OKFN shared quite an announcement this morning. On September 17-22
this year, global communities will be descending on the shores of Helsinki for a
week-long celebration called the Open Knowledge Festival –
and you’re the first to be invited!
For this festival – the first of its kind in
the world – we are bringing Open
Government Data Camp (OGDCamp) and Open
Knowledge Conference (OKCon) to the same place to provide new
opportunities for collaboration. We’ll start the week by supporting
practitioners working in the fields of open government and municipal data, and
end it by exploring the diversity of open knowledge initiatives from a global
perspective. The organising team, a talented gathering of Finns and leaders from
around the world, are already hard at work planning a busy week of seminars,
workshops, lectures, hackathons, keynotes, coding jams and interactive media
sessions that will bring together participants from a wide variety of
backgrounds in new ways.
Most importantly, we want your ideas to be
highlighted at OKFest. We are currently looking for proposals regarding
sessions, satellite events, research streams, hackathons, lecture topics and
other forms of collaboration. Have a great project or idea that you want to
share with the global community? This is the place to do it. Join our public
discussion list and say hello here and start finding collaborators on Twitter using the
hashtag #okfest.
We look foward to seeing you in Helsinki,
Finland this September for a week of new friends, open knowledge and global
inspiration with a Nordic twist!
For details about OKFest, see our
blog post
here. And apologies for any
cross-posts - we're quite excited today!
| Kat Braybrooke | Community Coordinator
| Open Knowledge
Foundation | London UK
| OKFN.org | Tweet @OKFN | Tweet
@kat_braybrooke
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