Open Knowledge Meet-ups 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. Information about some of our past meet-ups can be found at scot.okfn.org.
Confirmed speakers include
* Alistair Lawson of Edinburgh Napier University - "Introducing the new work based MSc in Data Science"
* Gregor Boyd of the Scottish Government - "Opening up our Official Statistics"
* Leah Lockhart of the Digital Engagement Team of the Scottish Government will on "Transparancy in government"
* Sally Kerr of City of Edinburgh Council - "A year with open data"
* Alan Gardner of Code4Europe
* Olivia Gill of Scotland Environment Web hackathon
More details: scot.okfn.org.
Tickets: attending.io
Attending: jarofgreen
About Open Knowledge Scotland
We are a Local Group of Open Knowledge: a non-profit organisation founded in 2004 and dedicated to promoting open data and open content in all their forms – including government data, publicly funded research and public domain cultural content.
Reception, workshop and meeting area just at the Colinton Road entrance of Merchiston Campus
