Chapter/Belgium/Meetings/2011-11-22

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

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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
 * Stad Gent: civil servant (e-strategy and Ghent Living Lab)
 * apps for ghent organiser
 * Open cursus: open courseware
 * openbelgium.be
 * Krimson
 * MMLab (UGent/IBBT): semantic research & linked open data.
 * Designer and developer of the semantic part of The DataTank
 * Multimedia, engineering and teacher background
 * MMLab (UGent/IBBT): head of semantic subgroup of MMLab.
 * The DataTank & LODGE (Linked Open Governmental Data Environment: IWT ICON project)
 * Organised first apps for ghent
 * XPlore+: business intelligence solutions
 * The DataTank: a platform for open data
 * Apps For X: Gent/Leuven/West
 * Sempshere Certified Semantic Technology Specialist
 * Experience in giving training (5 years part-time XML trainer at Cronos)
 * Civil servant West Toer
 * Focus: concerned civilian
 * apps for ghent organiser
 * Open history as developer (apache.org/github/...)
 * egov
 * Flemish government
 * CORVE
 * Flemish government
 * Software engineer
 * open biology/chemistry data (OpenPHACTS IMI project)
 * A lot of technical open data experience
 * Semantic Web expert
 * schoolkid vzw
 * Programmer
 * 2 projects: http://migrationsmap.net & http://populationpyramid.net
 * Big interest in visualization
 * ICRI-K.U.Leuven-IBBT: researcher on legal aspects of open data
 * epsiplatform.eu
 * Faculty librarian Ghent University - Arts & Philosophy Department
 * Open access & Open bibliographic data
 * Basic info regarding OA work by lib.ugent.be: http://wiki.okfn.org/Chapter/Belgium
 * Hackerspace co-founder
 * self-employed
 * Concerned citizen
 * self employed ICT consultant
 * Data journalism chapter: apache.be
 * semantic search engine res
 * Member of Belgian Federal Parliament (N-VA) working on Telecom/IT/Open Data topics
 * peteropentdata.be
 * apps for ghent organiser
 * Co-founder iRail npo, current vice-president
 * The DataTank developer

How often will we meet?
Big physical meeting: Twice a year

Smaller meetings: for working groups. To be decided.

Next meeting

 * 20th of December: 19:30
 * location EEBIC (metro+train, next to university)
 * http://www.eebic.be//index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
 * Joseph Wybranlaan 40, 1070 Anderlecht

What is everyone willing to put into OKFN?

 * Erik & Miel - ambassadors of MMLab (want to take on responsabilities)
 * Jan Stoffels - ambassador in Flemish government
 * Hans Constandt - ambassador in semtech. Technical person LOD
 * Don't wants to overcommit (add team members Tom Vankemmel als schooldata expert and Stephane Roelandt as developer)
 * Martin: website development
 * Katleen: as an ambassador in Europe & other countries, legal aspects
 * Saskia Scheltjens: ambassador for library initiatives - open bibliographic data & open access re working groups OKFN
 * Hans Fraiponts: Organising events
 * Jan Vangrinsven: ambassador and maybe more
 * Peter Dedecker: ambssador: high political level
 * Noël Van Herreweghe: as representative of Vlaamse overheid
 * Lieven Janssen: I will be available to work on OKFN and related projects +/- 1 day a week (friday), ambassador in Europe & other countries, community coordinator, training, organising events, development (The DataTank)

We need people who give training!
To companies and government:
 * Semantics (Intro, technology landscape, case studies, workshops, open data examples)
 * Open data policies
 * Community building

Diversity of initiatives
(Noël Van Herreweghe)

Different initiatives; amongst others:
 * Vlaamse overheid
 * Federale overheid
 * Local government
 * V-ICT-OR
 * VVSG etc..

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?

 * Road show! We've all talked about open data: we need 1 organisation/platform/manifest/FAQ => OKFN be
 * First best practices, then licenses.
 * We should work towards the right tools for open data

GOAL

 * "Cristalising" our knowledge
 * Enabling & creating awareness: pilots
 * OKFN label for certain projects
 * OKFN = amplificator
 * an Umbrella organisation to connect, combine & define
 * should we critisize other initiatives like data.gov.be? They say "open data" but they are not at all doing open data.

Focus points

 * Increasing Awareness
 * Network
 * Educate
 * Validate
 * (noloby & living lab)

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]
 * a good website [wiki, SS] with basic information on OKFN be in Dutch and French
 * (1 official data portal for Belgium & push to CKAN)

[=> 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]
 * 120 quality data sets from Belgium on thedatahub.org
 * List of 50 "blue shirts" (using Ton Zijlstra's semantics)
 * 40 local parties have open data in program
 * 5 times apps for X in 2012?
 * 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

 * LODGE: an IWT ICON project with MultiMediaLab

Possible projects to copyright and license under OKFNbe

 * The DataTank
 * Belaws.be

Agenda of 20th of December
Setting up the structure: NPO
 * Roles
 * People
 * Statutes