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January 2014 meet-up at the National Library of Scotland

Many thanks for Nicola Osborne for taking copious notes that formed the basis of this post. Recordings of the meet-up are available: Part 1 (Gill, Stevie, Grainne, Graeme) Part 2 (Sara, Tabitha, News) January’s Open Data meetup was hosted once again in the fantastic National Library of Scotland, which is beginning to establish itself as more »

OpenDataGLA #1: Inaugural OKF Meet-up in Glasgow

Lucy Brown is Engagement Co-ordinator with the Future City | Glasgow programme. Ever the pioneer, our very own Glynn Staples helped organise the first Glasgow meet-up of the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) Local Group in Scotland. Although the OKF meetings have been taking place in Edinbugh for a while now, having regular meetings in the more »

Act locally, connect globally!

Looking back over the last year, OKF Scotland has really started to flourish. The Edinburgh meetups have brought together an impressive variety of people from many groups and institutions, and new connections keep on appearing. Even better, they are a huge amount of fun! The recent inaugural OKF meetup in Glasgow was an opportunity to more »

Edinburgh Open Data Meet-up at TechCube

For this meet-up we were fortunate enough to be able to use the fantastic new space in TechCube. Although it is destined to soon become the TechCube hot-desking venue, it was perfect for informal discussions and presentations about open data — a big thanks to Devon Walshe and Jamie Coleman for helping this happen! Funding more »

Jamming with Learner Journey Data

So, you’ve got 48 hours to kill. What do you do? Well, you could ‘do’ Vegas. You could, perhaps, read the whole of the Guru Granth Sahib. You could watch the film 48 Hrs 30 times. Or. You could hang out with some cool folks who have given up their free time to work together more »