14/11 Meeting

Today Antonis and Dimitris went to the municipality.
We went there to discuss and book the places where the festival will take place.

Good news:
Kostas Mohianakis (municipality informatics responsible) happily welcomed the idea. He suggested to actively include the municipality as a co-organizer. He said he has contacts in ELLAK and he can help to bring almost any important person in Greece for a presentation, lecture etc. He said the computer workshop in the basement of the Androgeo building will be at our disposal for the workshops and suggested Polykentro for extra workshops and discussions.

George Aerakis (vice-mayor for open governance) approved including the municipality as co-organizer.

Nikos Gialitakis (vice-mayor for youth) also liked the idea. He suggested having students visit the exhibition (he can contact schools himself and set up meetings). He suggested having students also participate in the exhibition (digifest will also take place on April 19-20).

We booked Palia Lahanagora from April 19-21 (20:00-23:00) for screenings (Androgeo was not available).

Bad news:
We had a lot of trouble finding a place for the exhibition... St.Mark's Basilika and St.George's Gate were both booked till long after our festival... We visited Mesogeios newspaper offices (after a suggestion from Marios Dionellis, and the old guy who has the place liked the idea, but he's trying to sell the building so we can't really count on it... We need brainstorming for new places!

More good news!
Antonis contacted Michel Bowens from the Peeer-to-Peer foundation (on facebook :p) and he loved the idea! He suggested contacting (his own words in descriptions): George Dafermos (a good p2p friend who is from crete, and now in Holland finishing a phd on peer governance) Peorge Papanikolau and Vasilis Kostakis (who are working on our greek blog and wiki pages are setting up a physical p2p lab in Athens) Himself :p via email as he'd love to help, and even come if we invite him (he'll be in Berlin at the time so it'll be easier for him to come)!

We need to meet up soon!
We need to develop the about and mission statement of the festival and brainstorm on the exhibition place. Fill in the doodle now!