OK London

Overview

Open Knowledge is any material that anyone is free to access, re-use and re-distribute - from sonnets to statistics, genes to geodata. Open Knowledge London meetups are an opportunity for those based in London to meet up to discuss open knowledge projects and issues. All are welcome!

People

If you are interested in getting involved, please join the ok-london-announce list and add your name below:

Jonathan Gray (Open Knowledge Foundation)
Jordan Hatcher (opencontentlawyer.com)
Prodromos Tsavios (LSE and Creative Commons UK)
Michael Holloway (Open Rights Group)
Michael Cross (Guardian/Free Our Data)
Saul Albert (The People Speak)
Iain Emsley
Becky Hogge (Open Rights Group)
Martin Keegan
Diana Kornbrot (University of Hertfordshire)
Owen Blacker (mySociety and Open Rights Group)
Nicholas Humfrey (BBC)
Kai Hendry
Yves Raimond (Queen Mary University)
Michael Smethurst (BBC)
Peter Coetzee (Imperial College London)
Adam Mcreggor (Too Many Hats)
YishayMor (London Knowledge Lab)
Tim Duckett (Headshift Ltd)
Paul Youlten (Yellowikis)
Richard Poynder (Freelance Journalist)
Harry Metcalfe (http://www.tellthemwhatyouthink.org)
Steve Dale (http://www.semantix.co.uk)
Alastair Dunning (JISC - http://www.jisc.ac.uk/digitisation)
Imran Ghory
Edward Murfitt (RCA, IDE)
Daniel Johnston (http://indusdelta.co.uk)
David Price (debategraph.org)
Erik Duval
Giota Alevizou (LSE)
Andrea Rota (Liquid Culture and Xelera)
Jonathan Lowe (http://www.giswebsite.com)
Peter Murray-Rust (http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/)
Alf Eaton
Cameron Neylon (Open Notebook Science)
Andrew Duff, Department of Media & Film, University of Sussex
John Davison (Railfuture)
Matthew Larsen (Logica / The University of Manchester)
Graham Seaman (LSE, MIA, OpenCollector)
Chris McKenna
Jonathan Lister, Osmosoft
Matthew Cockerill, BioMed Central
Graham Triggs, Open Repository
Matt Collins (Localmouth)

Meetups

The second meetup will take place in June 2008. If you are interested in attending, please vote on the dates that you are free on the doodle page!

Past

First Meetup, Wednesday 30th April 2008

Future activities

Please add any ideas for future activities that you'd like to see to the list below:

Events

general meetups/drinks
forums:
- domain specific
  - historical information
  - environmental information
  - PSI
  - geodata
  - music data
  - cultural heritage
- law and licensing
- digital methods
- social aspects of open knowledge
- economics of open knowledge
hackathon for work on open knowledge projects
ckan package party
open source data visualisation event

Projects

A short film, or a series of mini films about the OKF and the open knowledge community.
Use cases or ideas for re-using closed data. What could you do if x was open?
Toolkit for data providers. Video with different examples. Demonstration of best practices in different domains.