Chapter/Belgium/Meetings/2011-11-22

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The first meeting was held at Krimson's offices in Ghent.

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Hi OKFNbe,

First of all thanks for attending and an even bigger thank you to Roel  De Meester for hosting. I think we can call this first meeting a huge  success.

Attendees:

Bart Rosseau, Wouter Vanden Hove, Roel Demeester, Miel Vander Sande,  Erik Mannens,
Lieven Janssen, Marc Portier, Noël Van Herreweghe, Jan  Stoffels, Hans Constandt,
Martin De Wulf, Katleen Janssen, Saskia  Scheltjens, Hans Fraiponts, Jan Vangrinsven,
Peter Dedecker, Pieter  Colpaert

Also very interested but couldn't make it for the first meeting:

Bart Hanssens, Tanguy De Lestre, Bart Van Loon, Andries De Reyghere,
Jan Vansteenlandt, Marijke Verhavert, Andrew Vande Moere

The next meeting will be the 20th of December 19:30 at EEBIC  (http://www.eebic.be//index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1)
hosted bij Hans Constandt. The program for the meeting is discussing the  board, financial plan, setting up the statutes and
so on. If you attend  you'll be an official founding member of the OKFNbe. Let us know if  you'll be here by replying on
this e-mail or by simply adding your name  to the attendees list over here:

http://wiki.okfn.org/Chapter/Belgium#Attendees

You can find a quick overview of what we have discussed at http://wiki.okfn.org/Chapter/Belgium/Meeting-22-nov-11.
Feel free to add your own notes according to your own minutes, or to add more information to your name.

It was a pleasure to meet a lot of like-minded people. Let's make this organisation something other countries
can reference to as an example.

Kind regards,

Pieter Colpaert

okfnpad.org minutes

Twitter: #OKFNbe

http://wiki.okfn.org/Chapter/Belgium

http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Open-Data-Belgium-3728092


Introducing OKFNbe attendees

Bart Rosseau

Wouter Vanden Hove

Roel Demeester

Miel Vander Sande

Erik Mannens

Lieven Janssen

Marc Portier:

Noël Van Herreweghe

Jan Stoffels

Hans Constandt

Martin De Wulf

Kathleen Janssen

Saskia Scheltjens

Hans Fraiponts

Jan Vangrinsven

Peter Dedecker

Pieter Colpaert

Next meeting

How often will we meet?

Big physical meeting: Twice a year

Smaller meetings: for working groups. To be decided.

Next meeting

What is everyone willing to put into OKFN?

Problems that will need a solution

We need people who give training!

To companies and government:


Diversity of initiatives

(Noël Van Herreweghe)

Different initiatives; amongst others:

OKFN is another one see also http://www.corve.be/citadel/index.php

We can be another organisation with a strong focus on open knowledge, but bare in mind that other organisations have done a lot before us!

Who's who in open data in Belgium?

GOAL

Focus points

By the end of 2012 we will have reached

(these are not written in stone yet)

[=> isn't this what the thedatahub.org is?? SS]

[=> I don't think that there needs to be one site in the whole world where all data (links) reside, open data portals need to be distributed all over the world to target there specific audiences, thedatahub can stay the central hub to combine the data of all these ditributed portals. LJ]

Apps for West
Apps for Leuven
Apps for Ghent 2
Apps for Antwerp? Brussels?
But also apps for other domains like youth work, cultural heritage, ...

Funding

Possible projects to copyright and license under OKFNbe

Agenda of 20th of December

Setting up the structure: NPO

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