On July 15th-17th the Open Knowledge Festival is taking place in Berlin, Germany. It is a large scale meet-up of people involved in all varieties of ‘open’: data, government, hardware, software, knowledge, economy, development, innovation etc.
I had originally planned to go, but will not be able to attend. That means I have a ticket available. If you are an Edgeryder, and would otherwise not be able to go, I am happy to give my ticket to you. Are you interested, then make yourself known in the comments. Let’s see if we can come up with a way to get one (more) Edgeryders to #OKFest.
I’m coming to the OKFest too, but did not get my ticket yet, so I would really appreciate the ticket, as they are quite expensive … but maybe you could also offer it to @elf Pavlik who is not using money at all , and I’m not sure if volunteers get in for free this time … ( I guess not )
I plan to participate but still haven’t received response to my volunteer request Me, @Dorotea or someone else participating in ER network can use it for sure. Dorotea have you also applied for volunteer ticket?
Volunteers do get in for free, and there was also a support fund, but the deadline was 4 May. See Volunteer at OKFestival | Open Knowledge Festival 2014 Beatrice said 5 days ago that the announcement on who will be volunteering is coming asap. Did you also volunteer Dorotea?
Otherwise it is up to you… If one of you gets in as volunteer, the other gets the ticket. If both of you will not be volunteering, I think it is up to Dorotea to decide, as she was the first responder
Does that sound fair enough to both of you?
Either way it is great to know that an Edgeryder will be making good use of the ticket.
Ton is correct, and Elf - I’ve got you shortlisted (I’m heavily involved with the volunteers and think we’re going to send out an announce this week - if not: bug me again).
nice people, good conversations, not quite LOTE though
the last OKfestival in 2012 seemed to have a wider range of different issues including, for example, hardware, design, film, gender diversity, and software - this time it was more narrowly focused.
Now the Open Knowledge idea of ‘the open space’ is mostly limited to “open science, open government, open GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives and museums) open development and open sustainability” which is certainly very interesting, but I missed the scrappy artists and hackers a bit… Open Data has become well established, which is a great thing, but sometimes I felt the sessions were by and for institutions rather than individuals.
I think mine is definitely a minority opinion though, most people I spoke to loved it.
My highlights (other than freeform discussions with participants) were the single hour allocated to open design (about the definition) and a great discussion at the unFestival about P2PValue.
Thanks for these first impressions. Looking forward to see blogpostings digesting what went on in more detail. Would be good to see some of your thoughts posted.