#OpenDataEDB Meetup, Thursday 16 May

[Ewan Klein]

Hi everyone,

The next Edinburgh Open Data Meetup (#OpenDataEDB) will be at TechCube on Thursday 16th May, kicking off at 6.00 pm.

We have a great line-up of lightening talks:

* Bill Roberts - Linked Open Data for the UK Department for Communities and Local Government
* Kim Taylor - PlacED: A location finder App using open data from City of Edinburgh Council
* Gavin Crosby - Mapping Youth Resources
* Fiona McNeill - Open Data and Climate Science
* John Kellas - Data visualisation and Community Learning
* Tessa Quinn - Open Data Challenges for the National Galleries of Scotland
* Ben Jeffrey - From the Ground Up: enabling access to educational data one tool at a time
* Susan Pettie / Marc Horne - So Say Scotland and Thinking Together: Citizens Having A Say!
* Devon Walshe - The Geeks in Residence Programme
* Leah Lockhart - Local Government WG Report

The meetups are friendly and informal evenings for people to get together to share and argue all areas of openness. Come and join discussions around open knowledge and open data -- from politics and philosophy to practicalities of theory and practice. There will be free wine, beer and snacks, and plenty of time to mingle and network. Many thanks to Informatics Ventures for their generous sponsorship.

It helps us a lot if you can sign-up in advance:

http://www.meetup.com/OpenKnowledgeFoundation/Edinburgh-GB/914412/

Hope to see you there,

Ewan

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Ewan Klein
School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
Informatics Forum 2.11, 10 Crichton Street
Edinburgh, EH8 9AB, UK

Email: ew...@inf.ed.ac.uk
Tel: +44 131 650 2705
Fax: +44 131 650 6899