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= Open Knowledge Cambridge =

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If you'd like to come to an Open Knowledge Cambridge meetup, please join ok-cam-announce.

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

texts from Cambridge college libraries. Neuro-Imaging. cycle mapping (journey planner and photomap), OpenStreetMap and the two national cycle mapping projects.
 * Christopher Burlinson, Emmanuel College, on digitizing early modern
 * Matthew Brett, MRC CBU, on python, open source and open data in
 * Martin Lucas-Smith and Simon Nuttall, Cambridge Cycling Campaign, on

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
 * 
 * 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 
 * 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.