[ELECTRON] Jo Walsh meeting

[Jo Walsh]

Hello! Thanks for the intro Simon.

I have done mostly geodata things in the intervening years since
node.london/UO, though I am inching out of it in the direction of trying to
shake up academic publishing a bit.

The things bugging me at the moment are reliance on Google Maps even by
people who are otherwise all about open source and open data - thus wanting
to run this workshop, which JISC is kindly offering financial support for if
we can figure out how to spend it. Also trying to collect and figure out
"business models" that will support open data.

Been in Edinburgh a couple of years now but am hardly ever in Glasgow but
would happily change that. Visiting May 17th to meet folks at the Scottish
Place Name Survey, so could drop by 4 or 5 ish...

On 27 Apr 2011 09:48, "Simon Yuill" <simon at lipparosa.org> wrote:

Hi,

Jo Walsh - who is organising the mapping workshop - has offered to meet
with Electron Club members as she is intersted in gettign to know people
better. She has suggested late afternoon/early evening on May 17th.

Aside from being involved in mapping as a researcher at Edinburgh
Univesrity she is also involved in things such as the Open Knowledge
Foundation and was previously part of the World Summit on Free
Information Infrastructures and NODE.London for which she co-edited the
'Media Mutandis' book with Marina Vishmidt. NODE.London was/is a network
of digital arts and community media groups in London with a strong
emphasis on FLOSS and open organisation, including groups such as the
University of Openness. In short, I think she has a lot of interesting
background that would be relevant to a number of Electron Club members.

A few URLS:

http://www.okfn.org

http://nodel.org

http://uo.twenteenthcentury.com


I think she has signed up to this list so people can mail her through here.


best wishes
Si


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