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This is an archived project from the Open Knowledge Foundation and it is no longer active. For any questions please contact admin at okfn.org. Toggle navigation Menu Home AmbassadorsInitiatives Texas Massachusetts New York City Washington Oregon All AmbassadorsInitiatives BlogSubmit A New Year, a renewed beginning for the US Open Knowledge network Posted February 13, 2018 Note: this is an expanded version of the recap of the rebooted US OKFN’s inaugural webinar posted here. If you look at the blogpost before this – its dated August 17, 2014! Almost 3.5 years! Right there, is the problem we’re addressing with the reinvigorated US OKN. For now, we will just repost from discuss.okfn.org. […] Read more Diversity Opening Knowledge Requires Diversity Posted August 17, 2014 13% of Americans hablan español en casa; half of those folks speak English very well.” I have heard the second fact used as an excuse not to tweet, blog, and otherwise communicate in Spanish, but when you do the math, that would ignore more than 20 million Americans, up to 40 million depending on the […] Read more Twitter Updates from @OKFNUS on Twitter Posted January 8, 2014 The following, one minute of 2013 highlights at @OKFNUS on Twitter gives a glimpse at our 1500+ tweets posted and 750+ friends made. That’s OKF NYC Ambassador @LaneRasberry on the right side of the cover shot, quoted saying Wikipedia is what the world is reading” at #WikiNLM at the NIH, May 29 2013. The video […] Read more Featured 1000 Pebbles on a Path Posted October 7, 2013 With a tweet linking to this post, I have published the first 1,000 tweets at @OKFNUS. Below are some tales and details from the first 1,000 tweets. Going forward, expect more of the same at @OKFNUS — plus! more from other US Ambassadors and representatives of the Open Knowledge Foundation. I look forward to sharing […] Read more Meetups Open Science Hack Night in Seattle Posted August 7, 2013 An August night went from beautiful to brilliant when roughly 50 people came together for lightning talks, mingling, beer and Open Science hacking in Seattle. Given the summer timing, I had lined up several cohosts for the event, and I had stressed that no technical or science background was required to attend. Each host brought […] Read more Get to know Open Knowledge Posted June 6, 2013 If you want Open to win, you’ve got to make it more attractive to the average person,” said Rufus Pollock @rufuspollock in his May 24, 2013 talk at Code for America. Rufus discussed not only the Open Source tools and Open Data initiatives for which Open Knowledge are well known in America, but our larger mission. This […] Read more Meetups June 6 #okfSF @PLOS :: #OpenAccess and more Posted June 6, 2013 Following this event, Matt Senate of @PLOS blogged on their Recipe for a Good Event. It’s recommended reading when hosting a popular meetup. I started open notes for the event at http://okfnpad.org/20130606sf. Below the following Meetup.com embed, I have published select tweets, photos, and other reports from #okfSF and other media. You can also check out […] Read more Boston Open Data and Open Knowledge Meetup May 26 Posted May 20, 2013 The etherpad notes are at http://okfnpad.org/meetup-boston-may-2013 http://www.meetup.com/OpenKnowledgeFoundation/Boston-MA/947922/ Read more Meetups # /sbin/reboot Posted March 25, 2013 Let’s meet We met in San Francisco! OUR NOTES http://okfnpad.org/20130325-sfmeetup ON MEETUP.com March 25, 2013, Wikimedia Foundation offices the run-up [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/jwyg/status/315149245797773312″] [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/openscience/status/315650935621812224″] [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/tmccormick/status/316268097885573121″] our hashtag was #okfSF, select tweets [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/spjika/status/316365757195902977″] [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/openscience/status/316366331287072768″] [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/tilgovi/status/316367054829649920″] [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/Jay_Nath/status/316368928693694464″] [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/benwerd/status/316372003273732096″] [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/mitar_m/status/316372671568936962″] [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/openscience/status/316372784924221440″] [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/IanJKalin/status/316373088898011136″] [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/tnychn/status/316375214642585600″] [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/videmsky/status/316377957495083008″] [blackbirdpie […] Read more Berkeley US #OpenGLAM Launch Posted March 23, 2013 3… 2… 1… First, what is Open GLAM? Open GLAM is a global network of people and organizations who are working to open up content and data held by GLAM institutions (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums). Sign up to the Open GLAM mailing list and join the discussion. [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/jwyg/status/314841736780345344″] [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/OpenGLAM/status/314567789870477312″] [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/bathlander/status/315526460007919616″] [blackbirdpie […] Read more Boston – October 23 2012 Posted October 23, 2012 http://www.meetup.com/OpenKnowledgeFoundation/Boston-MA/789632/ Read more Submit Join us on Twitter! Tweets by @OKFNUS Home AmbassadorsInitiatives Texas Massachusetts New York City Washington Oregon All AmbassadorsInitiatives BlogSource code available under the MIT license. cc by Content on this site, made by Open Knowledge Foundation , is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License . 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