Open Knowledge Festival/meeting20111109

Attendees

 * Antii (Finnish Institute)
 * Jussi (Finnish Institute)
 * Lotta (Finnish Institute)
 * Kat (OKF)

Summary

 * Proposal to consolidate OKCon and OGDcamp resources into one big, week-long event called the ‘Open Knowledge Festival’, which will include a large series of satellite events organised by like-minded groups, hackathons and meet-ups in Helsinki, Finland.
 * Within this umbrella framework:
 * Open Knowledge Festival (formerly called ‘Open Knowledge Conference’) will be framed as the main stream, with opening/closing plenaries and more conference-style lectures and panels.
 * OGDcamp will be framed as the hands-on, results-focused stream with hackathons, workshops and on-the-ground training in open government data.
 * To help this event succeed in Finland, we also propose hiring an OKF Finland Community Coordinator living in Helsinki (to be funded either by OKF or by Finnish Insitute) on a time-limited contract (until end of festival, with option to renew as general community coordinator afterward) to help organise this event with OKF and Fin Institute staff in London. Jussi has a shortlist of candidates for this position.

To do

 * Antii, Jussi: Draft a more official proposal for this event and how it will be organised so that we can use it for others to get involved
 * Kat, Daniel: Help create memorandum of understanding between Finnish Institute, OKF and the partner org based on what was used at OKcon and OGDcamp (Daniel?)
 * All: Once proposal finished, let’s have a Skype chat to talk over the formal elements of this event.
 * All: figure out how best to build the #OKfestival organising committee from former OKcon and OGDcamp organisers as well as local Finland partners.

Updates and news

 * We have a partner organisation in Finland - yay!
 * Antii and Jussi have talked to several orgs in Finland, and all were excited about getting involved - Media Factory, groups into open web, World Design Capital people (the event will be a part of the programme), information design groups (who might make their events same time as conf)
 * The World Design Capital can do official partnership *or* a support letter - Jussi will be talking tomorrow to coworkers about this.
 * We need to discuss further re: corporate partners - do we want to engage w them? Is it important? If not, perhaps we don’t need to be involved with The World Design Capital on an official basis (or perhaps they can do a satellite event during the festival).
 * Antii and Jussi also note that they’d rather postpone the creation of an OKF Finland chapter until after the Festival, so that current resources and time can be directed towards the Festival (and so that the chapter can be a potential outcome of the Festival).