fyi... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Prodromos Tsiavos <prodromos [ dot ] tsiavos [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com> Date: Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 18:54 Subject: Re: Prodromos re: Open Data in Greece To: cbratsas <cbratsas [ at ] math [ dot ] auth [ dot ] gr>, Nikos Roussos <nikos [ dot ] roussos [ at ] eellak [ dot ] gr>, "Theodoros G. Karounos" <karounos [ at ] eellak [ dot ] gr> Cc: Kat Braybrooke <kat [ dot ] braybrooke [ at ] okfn [ dot ] org>, Laura Newman <laura [ dot ] newman [ at ] okfn [ dot ] org> Hi Kat, Laura and Charalampos, @Laura thanks for making the introductions! I have also coordinated with our director, Theodoros Karounos and our community coordinator, Nikos Roussos whom I m also ccing to follow the discussion, and we hope GFOSS could assist OKF's Greek chapter. @Kat this is indeed a really small world :) I m spending my time between Athens and London working for GFOSS and LSE respectively :) @Charalampos these are really great news :)) Besides Marinos's involvement, we could provide assistance in the following areas: - we could provide input for the Open Data Handbook specifically to be addressed to Greek civil servants (both technical and legal sides) For that purpose we could arrange a lab at the Greek School of National Public Administration - assist in in the coordination of relevant events and activities of OKFN Greece in Athens :) - assist in any events you would like to organise in Athens or through the network of other organisations in Greece - provide input and expert advice on specific issues/ causes you may be pursuing (e.g. anti-ACTA events, pro-open data legislative reforms, IPR law revisions etc, collecting societies issues etc) - GFOSS is a non-profit, whose stakeholders and effectively owners are all Greek Universities and research institutions as well as NGOs such as HELUG. In general we are trying to bring together as many as possible of the various "open" communities in Greece and link to international networks and we already have collaborations and MoUs with CC, OLPC, wikipedia, FSF Europe, FABLabs and disseminate information regarding their work and we would be very interested in collaborating with OKFN Greece as well. The collaborating of GFOSS with OKFN Greece is a valuable step to our mutual benefit . Please let me know if there is anything else we could help you with. All the best, pRo On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 10:28 PM, cbratsas <cbratsas [ at ] math [ dot ] auth [ dot ] gr> wrote: > > Hi Kat, Laura, Prodromos !! > > It is a great pleasure to have Prodromos to be involved in the OKFN Greece local group :) > > @Prodormos You can contact my via Skype, my skypename is charalampos.bratsas > > We have already contacted GFOSS and Creative Commons Greece for common work. > > In this perspective Marinos Papadopoulos, Greek Creative Commons Legal Lead, will make a presentation in the OKFN Greece meet-up in April. > > An almost final program of the meet-up follows: > > 1. Prof. I. Antoniou (Director of MSc Web Science, AUTH). The power of Openness. Open Data and Open Knowledge (15 minute) > > 2. Prof. George Metakides (President of DIGITAL ENLIGHTENMENT FORUM). Open Data Infrastructures for Innovation (15 minute) > > 3. Kaitlyn Braybrooke (OKFN Local Chapter and Groups Coordinator) Open Knowledge Foundation Scope-Vision, OKFN: Local Groups and Chapters (15 minute) > > 4. Dr. Charalampos Bratsas, (OKFN Greece Local Group Coordinator) Greek Open Data current status and the OKFN Greece challenges (15 minute) > > 5. Dr. Sören Auer (OKFN Advisor Board, LOD2 EU project Coordinator) Linked Data Challenges LOD2 Project Results (15 minute) > > 6. Marinos Papadopoulos (Legal Lead Creative Common Hellas), Open Data licenses in different sectors of activities (15 minute) > > 7. Prof. Panagiotis Bamidis (meducator EU Project Coordinator) Open Educational Data: the case of meducator project. (15 minute) > > 8. Kostantinos Stampoulis (Greek Wikipedia Administrator), Towards Greek Wikimedia Foundation (15 minutes) > > 9. Discussion 30 minutes > > 10. Greek Wine Reception. > > Best, > > Charalampos > > On 9/3/2012 1:35 μμ, Kat Braybrooke wrote: > > Haha, Prodromos - small world! > > (Laura, Prodomos and I are on the same coord team of FAB* - fabstar.org - and, I've just realised, we've met in London, Prodomos, when you did a presentation with the OKFN about open domain licenses at the Wellcome Collection a few months ago with Jonathan, Francis and Sam!) > > Prodromos, where are you from in Greece and do you currently still live in London? It would be great to get you more involved with the emergent open knowledge community there. > > Led by Charalampos (CC'd in this email, I'll leave it to him to introduce himself!), they have been working hard to get things started, as you'll see on their OKFN site [1] and recent/upcoming events. I'll also be headed to Thessanoliki next month for their next Greek Open Knowledge meetup. > > [1] http://gr.okfn.org/ > > What areas of the OKFN specifically is GFOSS interested in? :) > > Kat > > | Kat Braybrooke | Community Coordinator > | Global Chapters and OKFestival > | Open Knowledge Foundation | London > | OKFN.org | Twitter @kat_braybrooke > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Laura Newman <laura [ dot ] newman [ at ] okfn [ dot ] org> wrote: >> >> Hi Kat, Hi Prodormos, >> >> Just thought I'd quickly e-introduce you to one another :) >> >> Kat is our Community Coordinator who looks after international local chapter groups. Prodromos works for GFOSS, who are interested in finding out more about the process of getting involved with OKFN activities in Greece. >> >> I won't say too much more here as I think Prodromos wanted to loop-in another colleague from GFOSS anyway, but good to have you both in touch! >> >> All the best, >> Laura >> >> >> -- >> Laura Newman >> Community Coordinator >> Open Knowledge Foundation >> http://okfn.org/ >> Skype: lauranewmanonskype >> Twitter: @Newmanlk >> > > > > -- > -- > Dr Charalampos Bratsas > Web Science Program > Mathematics Department > Aristotle University > Thessaloniki 54124 > Greece > Tel: +30 2310 997897 > +30 6974317051 > Fax: +30 2310 997929 > E-mail: cbratsas [ at ] math [ dot ] auth [ dot ] gr -- - Jiddu Krishnamurti: If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem. - http://karounos.gr/blog/