How about a Minnesota Open Data Week?

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Steven Clift

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Jun 5, 2015, 10:38:00 AM6/5/15

to twin-cities-brigade, Joonas Pekkanen

An idea from our Nordic friends:http://www.opennordics.org/nordic-open-data-week-2015-nodw15/

http://nordicopendataweek.se/

As the most Nordic state in the U.S., we could just join them next year. :-)

More good stuff from Helsinki below ...

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