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By: An evening talking about Open Data?? Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full. | McBlawg

Fri, 23 Aug 2013 18:21:06 +0000

[...] an event in Scotland in 2010, according to people who have been on the scene longer than I… see here for comments on the Open Biblio blog post which highlight previous activity, and many thanks to the [...]

By: Final report: JISC Open Bibliography 2 « archaeoinaction.info

Final report: JISC Open Bibliography 2 « archaeoinaction.info — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 22:11:40 +0000

[...] duration of this project: the project team met in Cambridge and Edinburgh to plan work in Sprints; Edinburgh also played host to a couple of Meet-ups for the wider open community, as did London; and London [...]

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Final report: JISC Open Bibliography 2 — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 07:43:56 +0000

[...] of this project: the project team met in Cambridge and Edinburgh to plan work in Sprints; Edinburgh also played host to a couple of Meet-ups for the wider open community, as did London; and London [...]

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Sat, 24 Mar 2012 16:07:52 +0000

By: Stuart Macdonald

Stuart Macdonald — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:13:04 +0000

Details of the 2010 event (including slides &videos) held at InSpace can be found at url: http://tinyurl.com/6vqj9g7

By: Nicola Osborne

Nicola Osborne — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:48:10 +0000

Really glad to hear that last night’s meet up went well – I hope to make the next one, schedule permitting.

There was indeed a meetup in Scotland in 2010 and the materials are still available online here:
http://wiki.okfn.org/Open_Knowledge_Scotland_Event_Page

At that event I also shot some video with a Flip Camera though it is of a very patchy quality (this was very much a test and last minute thing). However it can still be seen/endured here:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/open-knowledge-scotland

Look forward to hearing about future events!

Nicola Osborne, EDINA Social Media Officer

By: Jo Walsh

Jo Walsh — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:47:22 +0000

OKScotland - that was in May 2010. It was more of a mini-conference than a meetup, an afternoon-evening conference, of about 75 people? I helped put it together, along with my colleagues Robin Rice and Stuart Macdonald at the EDINA Datacentre at the University of Edinburgh.

It was fun. We covered Open Research and Open Mapping and Open Civic Information. There's quite an overlap with the ScotGovCamp scene i think, that's much more active. Tartantm, that's just starting up. I expect there's lots more overlap. There's sympathy in government, too, I think. "Where's Scotland's Data?"

I'm on kind of an indefinite sabbatical from OKF now, but it is very heartening to see a new generation appear, take over, get enthusiastic, get people talking who wouldn't otherwise be talking, inspiring one another, and you seem to be doing a good job of that so far!