[ox-en] Fwd: [okfn-announce] Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) in London on 24th April 2010

Hi!

It would be great if someone here go there and give us an idea of what
happened there.


						Grüße

						Stefan

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Date:  Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:27:03 +0100
From:  Jonathan Gray <[email protected]>
Subject:  [okfn-announce] Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) in London on 24th
	April 2010
To:  okfn-announce <[email protected]>
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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,





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Jonathan Gray

Community Coordinator
The Open Knowledge Foundation
http://blog.okfn.org

http://twitter.com/jwyg
http://identi.ca/jwyg

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