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Meetings

2008-12-03

Cambridge Open Knowledge Pub Meetup: Tomorrow (3rd Dec) 1830-2030 at CB2

2008-06-06

Friday 6th June 2008, 1830-2030, Harrods Room, Emmanuel College, Cambridge

• Christopher Burlinson, Emmanuel College, on digitizing early modern

texts from Cambridge college libraries.

• Matthew Brett, MRC CBU, on python, open source and open data in

Neuro-Imaging.

• Martin Lucas-Smith and Simon Nuttall, Cambridge Cycling Campaign, on

cycle mapping (journey planner and photomap), OpenStreetMap and the two national cycle mapping projects.

2008-02-13

Wednesday 13th February 2008, 1900-2100, Harrods Room, Emmanuel College, Cambridge

• Rufus Pollock, Emmanuel College and the Open Knowledge Foundation - on discovering and installing open knowledge packages using CKAN.
• Francis Irving of PublicWhip.org and mySociety - on freeing Government data, and travel-time maps.
• Jim Downing of the Unilever Cambridge Centre for Molecular Informatics - on Open Source and Open Access in Chemistry.

2006-10-05

• met in CB2 cambridge
• present
  • RufusPollock
  • FrancisIrving
  • Martin Brett
  • Matthew Brett
• discussed:
  • Martin Brett's efforts to produce open version of Ivo of Charters
    • <http://www.wtamu.edu/%7Ebbrasington/ivo.htm>
    • multiple texts (140 manuscripts all slightly different), how does one produce a consolidated version, how does one compare texts etc
    • set up a knowledgeforge project for this called ivo
    • involved a lengthy and fascinating discussion of Gratian
    • see also this thread <http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/okfn-discuss/2006-May/000065.html>
• demoed newsclipping service to Francis and Martin and Francis mentioned that Ben Campbell is working on something similar -- Francis to put the in touch (Media Standards Trust)
  • annotation systems:
    • marginalia: http://www.geof.net
    • gpl v3 comments system: http://gplv3.fsf.org/comments/source/stet-latest.tar.bz2 (v. undocumented)
• todo: add julian todd to okfn-discuss and start thread on:
  • offsets into documents (fragments)
  • user interfaces for text document systems (marginalia etc)
  • inline annotation
• francis: mailman is really bad (compare it to google groups)
  • looked at osprey: http://osprey.ibiblio.org/
  • discussed using xapian with structured files (e.g. xml). Francis is planning to investigate omega (an app built on top of xapian)

2006-09-07

• met in CB2 cambridge
• present
  • RufusPollock
  • FrancisIrving
  • PeterMurrayRust
  • ChrisMarsden
• discussed:
  • Peter's has started a blog: http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/
    • In particular we discussed his post on Open Access: http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=15
    • Peter's promises to post about tonight's meeting so keep your rss feed tuned
• theyworkforyou' new web api: http://www.theyworkforyou.com/api/
  • The statute law database (again!)
  • The open economics software is now live on the development server: http://econ.dev.okfn.org/store/

2006-08-03

• met in CB2 cambridge
• present
  • RufusPollock
  • SimonRoe
  • PeterMurrayRust
  • Wookey
  • PaulCanning
  • FrancisIrving
  • ChrisLightfoot
• Discussed
  • versioning data
  • OPSI and statute law database

2006-07-06

• met in CB2 cambridge
• present
  • RufusPollock
  • SimonRoe
  • Wookey
  • JohnBywater
  • PaulCanning
  • FrancisIrving
  • PeterMurrayRust
• discussed:
  • chemistry data (might be a collaborative project with wikipedia)
  • structured vs. unstructured data
  • publicwhip
  • food cooperatives and community currencies
  • publicdomainworks.net

2006-05-25

• Thursday, 25th of may
• CB2, cambridge 1700

2006-04-27

• met in CB2 cambridge
• present
  • RufusPollock
  • AlistairTse
  • PeterMurrayRust
  • SimonRoe
  • MatthewBrett
  • Wookey
  • JohnBywater

2006-03-27

• met in CB2 cambridge

2005-11-28

• Due to cancellations at last minute only people present were:
  • John Bywater
  • Rufus Pollock
  • Martin Keegan

2005-10-24

Present:

• Martin Keegan
• Michael Ott
• Rufus Pollock
• Pete Clay
• Geoffrey
• Jeremy
• Francis Irving (later)

Summary:

Main discussion was about potential areas that we could productively work in be it individually or in a more coordinated fashion. Ideas were:

• Wifi
• Contacting schools
  • Survey of policy and usage
  • Talking in the school
  • Simple linux deployment
• General survey re. Open Standards
• Web service of some kind
  • e.g. programmable wiki
• Public Domain Burn: work on FC-UK project
• Policy Work
  • paper on database directive
  • paper on broadcast treaty
  • Write to local MPs about term extension

Tentatively decided on contacting schools item.

2005-09-18

Present:

• John Bywater
• Bill Thompson
• Jeremy
• Pete Clay
• Francis (later)
• Michael Ott

Summary:

General discussion about political situation on IP and what activities we could engage in.

• Particular focus on 'linux in schools' idea.
• Discussed possibility of using Ndiyo equipment.