Introduce yourself

[Joris Pekel]

Please introduce yourself here when you are new. If you can add some of your interests and skills that would be great! 

[Chris Sakkas]

Hi,

I'm Chris Sakkas. I'm the admin of the FOSsil Bank (http://fossilbank.wikidot.com) and writer of the Living Libre blog (livinglibre1.wordpress.com). I volunteer on the OKFN wiki, deleting spam. I write and do a bit of graphic design. I also work and volunteer as a facilitator, admin assistant, do basic website and database management assessment, etc.

Looking forward to getting to know you all!

Chris

[philg]

Hello,

I"m a complex systems scientist. I use big/open data to try to learn about the world. Often combined with computer simulations. I also own a small company called ObscurusCode that does some big data stuff.

[Jenny Muilenburg]

I'm Jenny Muilenburg, and am the data services curriculum and communications librarian at the University of Washington. Long title, but what it means is that I'm interested in helping the academic community describe. archive, and provide access to their research outputs through a variety of means. Looking forward to learning more about the group!

[Netha Hussain]

Hi,

  I am Netha Hussain, an undergraduate medical student from Kozhikode, India. I am a contributor to Wikipedia Username: Netha Hussain) in Malayalam and English languages. I am an advocate of free knowledge, and I am particularly interested in increasing the participation of women and transwomen in Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects.

 Feeling great to join this mailing list! Looking forward to learning more about this group!

Regards

Netha Hussain

[Adethya Sudarsanan]

Hi Netha,

Welcome to the group. I am Adethya. I am also a Wikipedian (dormant basically). I know you from the Wikis. glad to find you here.

thanks,

Ade. S

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[Fiona Nielsen]

Hi all, 

I am Fiona Nielsen, a bioinformatics scientist turned entrepreneur. 

Recently I quit my job at a major biotech company to found the non-profit DNAdigest.org

The purpose of DNAdigest is to promote and enable open access sharing of genomics data for research. We are currently designing a a platform for secure and open access to genomics research data. 

Our website is online since this week. Feel free to sign up for our mailing list to stay up-to-date on developments: dnadigest.org

I will be talking at the Open Data on the Web conference on April 24th: 

http://www.w3.org/2013/04/odw/agenda#day2 

If you are around, please say hello. :) 

Cheers, 

-Fiona-

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[Prakash Neupane]

Hi All

I am Prakash Neupane, FOSS enthusiastic from Nepal.

Currently i am ambassador of OKFN Nepal, contributer of wikimedia Nepal and mozilla Nepal.

 Looking here for getting more discussion in coming days.

Thanks

Prakash Neupane

www.prakashneupane.com.np

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[Alex Rollin]

Alex Rollin, originally from San Francisco. 2009 - 2011 in Amsterdam, and now 2 years in Bogor,West Java, Indonesia, working under our social enterprise building Indonesian. Building and leveraging the digital commons towards development of food and housing commons, all built on open data.

Wikimedia, OpenStreetMap

Heritable Innovation Trust (aboriginal knowledge)

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[Rayna]

Hey all,

I'm Rayna, I work as research fellow at the Paris 5 University and as a freelance writer on various topics (not only science). My background is in genetics and bioinformatics but obsessive curiosity makes me write and read about internet governance in MENA and Eastern Europe, politics, etc.

I'm a longtime member of various Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) communities, have worked on Gender in FOSS with Unesco and am currently a board member of the French chapter of the OKFN where I am trying to build an Open & Citizen Science working group among other great projects we are currently developing :)

Great to e-meet so many interesting people :) Looking forward to working with you!

Rayna

2013/4/11 Alex Rollin <alex....@gmail.com>

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http://de.linkedin.com/in/raynas 

[Joris Pekel]

Hi everybody,

thank you all for introducing yourselves! Really nice to see so many different interests and backgrounds. 

So basically what I have done in this group here, is listing all the different community tasks from all of the different working groups and local groups in one place. I can imagine that at first sight it is a bit overwhelming so I would be happy to arrange a call or something with you to learn a bit more about your interests and what a good fit in the Open Knowledge community could be. Just ping me!

An other option which I quite like is setup a group call with a couple of you, get to know each other a bit and learn about each others interests and the Open Knowledge Foundation. Let me know if you are interested in this.

All the best,

Joris

2013/4/11 Rayna <rayn...@gmail.com>

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[Richard Littauer]

Hey everyone,

I feel like I might be a bit late to the party, but I'm another new guy here on the task force. I've been involved with the OKF since 2011, when I was at the meeting in Berlin, and I've mostly been active since then in the Open Linguistics working group. Our main project is the Linked Linguistics Open Data (LLOD) Cloud, and I've been doing some work with the others on that. I've also been active in the Open Science group, and on a (very) limited basis in the Open Economics and Open Banking groups. 

I'm currently finishing a double masters in Computational Linguistics at the Universities of Saarland (Germany) and Malta. I'm also a front end web developer. I'm generally interested in transparency in science, publishing, and in opening up scientific data. 

You can read more about me here: http://richardlitt.github.com.

Looking forward to helping out as I can!

Best,
Richard

[Alex Corbi]

Hi everyone,

My name is Alex Corbi, i am a spanish freelance mobile developer based in Berlin since 2009. Together with my girlfriend i am currently preparing a worldtrip which should begin in July. Along our journey we are commited to realise the project described in the document you can find under the following URL:

http://alexcorbi.com/pdf/project/project_dossier_workshop.pdf

I got to know about the OKF some months ago, and since then, i have been thinking about ways to combine my passions and programming skills with some social initiative. In the last months and after researching for the project i am willing to run i feel the fields of open data and knowledge sharing can be something i could imagine myself working on.

That's why i wanted to introduce myself here, introduce my project, and since it consists mainly on meeting people and collectives around the globe acting to support knowledge sharing, study the possibility of some kind of collaboration with some of the projects and participants of the OKF around the world.

Best regards,

Alex Corbi

[Kijan maharjan]

Hi,  I'm Kijan Maharjan. I'm a webdesigner and a freelance blogger at www.nepalit.com

Nice to meet you all.

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[Celyagd]

Dear all

I'm Celya. I launched a few months ago a project called hackYourPhd. It brings together a diverse community of doctoral researchers, designers and social entrepreneurs around the issues of Open Science and OpenKnowledge.

HackYourPhd wants to show that new ways of doing reseasrch exist, and can only benefit research itself as well as the relationship between science and society.

We have organized yet several workshops in Paris about open science. The next one will be a workshop about

Workshop “The new practices of scientific evaluation”

We are close to OKFN members in France and also in the UK ( We are  HackYourPhD connector in several countries but we are mostly based in Paris). 

I'm also part of the OuiShare community (open Knowledge connector)

I hope to meet you soon and see how i can help you..

Célya

[Eric]

Hi everyone,

It's a pleasure to meet you all. I'm a researcher working on cooperation between social movements using IT, mostly but not exclusively in the MENA region. I heard about OKFN through the IATI project.

[miska knapek]

Hello everyone,

So many great interests that people have, am much impressed! 

So, I'm a information/interaction/visualisation designer ( < sorry, I wish there was just one title for these things... ) and open society enthusiast, from Denmark+Czech Republic+Sweden, based in Helsinki, working as a research assistant at the Aalto University. 

I've been involved with the Finnish open data/society bunch since a few years, and also with OKFN Finland, to the point that I was one of the coordinators of the Datajournalism + Datavisualisation topic stream at the Open Knowledge Festival 2013. 

While interested in many facets of opening society, particularly democratic and knowledge developing ones, perhaps my own strongest sides are with my professional interests. But again, I'm open to all suggestions - the open ones tend to be interesting in all forms :) 

( If it's any help, besides being in touch with the Finnish open data folks, I can also read/write/speak Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian, and be in touch with those folks :) 

Thanks and looking forward to being in further contact!

miska

[Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive]

Dear All,

This is Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive from Bangladesh. I am regular & active Wikipedian since 2008. My user name: nhasive.

I am a IT journalist work Bangladeshi leading news paper The Daily Prothom-Alo & Moderator of Prothom-Alo Blog. Prothom Alo, highest circulated bengali newspaper of Bangladesh. Not only that but also Prothom Alo's webportal is the number 1 bengali web portal around the globe.

Beside to work with Wikipedia & Prothom-Alo i involve Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) as Treasurer & Public Relation Coordinator. BdOSN is a not-for-profit, voluntary organization to promote Open Source (OS) philosophy in Bangladesh. I am also involve Bangladesh Mathematical Olympiad Committee (BdMOC) since 2007. It is open for school and college going students (upto class XII) of the country. Our another activities to popularized science. I involve Society for the Popularization of Science, Bangladesh (SPSB). This is also a not-for-profit, voluntary organization to promote Science activities in Bangladesh.

I love to work with Open Source. My two book already published. One is based on Open Source Software & another one is based on Bangle Wikipedia.

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[Nick DeSantis]

Hi, my name is Nick DeSantis and I'm a recent graduate from the University of Michigan. I'm a contributor to Wikipedia (name available upon request) and I'm trying to work in Open Data and Open Knowledge in my future career. I've been involved with other projects in the Open Humanities Group like the Textus Project but I think I can more effectively contribute here. I'm also trying to establish a Local Group here in Michigan. Nice to meet you all and looking forward to helping out. 

[kshitiz khanal]

Hello task-force,

I am Kshitiz Khanal. I am a mechanical engineer from Kathmandu, Nepal. Renewable Energy is my chief interest.

I have been doing some data wrangling in the OpenSpending project. We have organized some Open Data and Open Spending events in Kathmandu.

It feels great to be in the task force. I want to help the cause in anyway I can!

Interests: Renewable Energy, Open Web, Literature, Sustainable Development, Ergonomics, Football (Soccer), ...
Some skills: 3D CAD, Mechanical Simulation, Data, Writing, ...  

Regards.
Kshitiz Khanal

[Thomas Salmon]

Hi everyone,

I'm Tom Salmon. I work in education and research down in East Sussex, and with the OKFN Open Education Working Group and do stuff in the Mozilla community too. Some of my interests are in the use of education data, the use of open badges and OER and the rise of massive online open courses.

about me: http://about.me/tomsalmon
my blog: http://intedanddevelopment.blogspot.co.uk/

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