Discussion in Finland around Open Data has been a lot about Open Data Portals and technical solutions to achieve National Data Portal. Some have noticed [...]
You want to take your business in Open Source? We can help you in that. We have helped several communities to foster: MeeGo Network Finland, [...]
Discussion in Finland around Open Data has been a lot about Open Data Portals and technical solutions to achieve National Data Portal. Some have noticed that opening data is not enough and started discussion about national platform or more like ‘sandbox’ for application development. That discussion goes under FORGE. However, that is not enough either. We need to push at least two more crucially and strategically important issues: community aspect [...]
I attended KIDE day organized by Ministry of Transport and Communications. The event was opened by Minister of Housing and Communications Krista Kiuru, which was followed by a discussion panel for which I was invited to participate. I sat there as Open Data and Open Source ‘ambassador’ and promoter of community-driven ecosystems. Topic of the panel discussion was roughly something like “How to enable digital service culture in Finland?” During that panel [...]
Some of you might have seen the following happening in US: Last week US Congressman Bill Foster introduced the National Fab Lab Network Act of 2013 to promote advanced manufacturing in the U.S. and invest in the next generation of entrepreneurs and innovators. According to its press release, “the goal of the network will be to establish at least one Fab Lab for every 700,000 people, giving students throughout the [...]
I’m participating in Open Data Tampere Region project as community manager or as I prefer to say community shepherd. Tampere has taken the step forward and already opened around 30 data source. Most of the opened data is still dumps, not APIs. It’s a good start though! There are some bottle necks (resource related) in making more APIs available for developers. APIs are needed in regarding data, which needs to [...]
I have been organizing bigger and smaller events for the past few years. Some events, mostly the bigger needs some sponsoring, monetary or other. Some events are hackathons in which participants actually do something rather than sit passively and listen. Below is a few tips regarding these two aspects in organizing events, volunteer-based or not. Webshopify packages Often sponsoring packages are like Platinum, Golden, Silver etc. The packages contain right [...]
I have been organizing bigger and smaller events for the past few years. Some events, mostly the bigger needs some sponsoring, monetary or other. Some events are hackathons in which participants actually do something rather than sit passively and listen. Below is a few tips regarding these two aspects in organizing events, volunteer-based or not. Webshopify packages Often sponsoring packages are like Platinum, Golden, Silver etc. The packages contain right [...]
Discussion in Finland around Open Data has been a lot about Open Data Portals and technical solutions to achieve National Data Portal. Some have noticed that opening data is not enough and started discussion about national platform or more like ‘sandbox’ for application development. That discussion goes under FORGE. However, that is not enough either. We need to push at least two more crucially and strategically important issues: community aspect [...]
You want to take your business in Open Source? We can help you in that. We have helped several communities to foster: MeeGo Network Finland, Mer community, Lean Startup Tampere . In other words, we have strong foothold in hacker culture. Our staff established hackerspace in Tampere, Finland. Starting Communities Sometimes is makes sense to build community around your products or ideas. Both are possible, but have different grounds, but [...]
