I've signed up and will be happy to report back to the MCG list

Paul

Paul Walk
(sent from phone)

On 19 Feb 2010, at 18:15, Ridge Mia <[log in to unmask]>  
wrote:

> DCMS and Rewired State are holding a free event in London on March 27.
> It's a hackday and an unconference, and it's not just for geeks.  I've
> copied a bit of their blurb and links below.  I'd be there like a shot
> if I was free.  If any of you do go, it'd be ace if you reported back
> and let the list know how you found it.
>
> Cheers, Mia
>
> See http://rewiredstate.org/culture or
> http://www.culture.gov.uk/working_with_us/6644.aspx for more.
>
> How do we encourage links between data repositories such as museums,
> broadcasters and the wider community like data.gov.uk or the "London
> Datastore"? How do we ensure that the exciting work already underway  
> in
> a number of organizations is shared more generally, so even smaller
> bodies and SMEs can learn from best practice and find workable  
> routes to
> market? What are the cultural content business models for the 21st
> century? How do creators, curators, developers and entrepreneurs work
> together?
>
> Rewired Culture has two strands - the first is a hackday bringing
> together data owners, data users, developers and people with ideas to
> see what they can create in a day. This builds on the very successful
> Rewired State events held in 2009.
>
> The second strand is a halfday unconference style event starting at
> midday and running in parallel with the hackday for data owners,
> entrepreneurs, data users and communites to discuss business models,
> funding mechanisms and challenges.
>
> We will be encouraging constant communication between the two strands
> because by the end of the day we want the event to have come up with a
> number of projects that people want to take foreward on technical or
> business grounds, preferably both!
>
> Who should attend?
> The event is open to all. If you are a developer, interested in data  
> use
> or reuse, a data owner, someone who has an idea for an application  
> using
> cultural data, a member of a cultural institution, someone who  
> relies on
> public or private data for your business, an entrepreneur, someone who
> is passionate about open data or access to culture, someone in
> education, or someone who has taken part in previous hackdays.
>
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