I have been so busy I haven’t managed to blog the Open Knowledge Foundation’s OKCON 2008. Here’s it in brief:
OKCon: The Annual Open Knowledge Conference
- When: Saturday 15th March 2008 10:30-18:30 (doors open 10am)
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Where: Clement House (D602), London School of Economics, London, UK (getting there) (another map)
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Programme: programme page
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Registration: register page
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Mailing lists: Join the announce list and/or the discussion list
PMR: Don’t offhand know if there’s space still available – maybe someone can respond.
Rufus Pollock has asked me to chair the session on visualization.
Session 2 (1200-1315): Visualization and Analysis
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Liz Turner (Freelance Designer and Visualizer Extraordinaire)
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Gael Varoquaux (Mayavi2 – the next Generation Visualization Toolkit)
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Martin Albrecht (SAGE the Open Source Mathematics Engine)
I’m really excited about this. I’ve been involved in graphics for nearly 30 years and the world still hasn’t solved the problem of how to get graphics to the client. But graphics is so important in making your message obvious and widely known. So there is still a lot of scope for work here.
And while I’m here enormous Kudos to Rufus for getting OK off the ground and keeping focussed. It’s made critical contributions over tha last year – e.g. with Science Commons.
Look forward to meeting old and new friends tomorrow.
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