[ELECTRON] Jo Walsh meeting

[Martin McGrath]

Hi Jo,

This sounds interesting. I'll pop along after work.

Thanks

Martin

On 29 April 2011 06:53, Jo Walsh <metazool at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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