<div class="gmail_quote">Hi folks,<div><br></div><div>We're doing an Open Data event next week at Social Media Cafe Liverpool. I thought some of you may be interested. We have some excellent speakers with good knowledge in this field. It's free to attend but you need to sign up via Eventbrite. Just so we have an idea of numbers.</div>

<div><br></div><div>It's always a fun night so come along if you can. More details below:</div><div><br></div><div>Dan</div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br><u></u>





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<p><span size="3" style="font-size:small"><b style="text-align:left;font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,Kalimati,sans-serif">#opendata</b><b><img src="http://socialmediacafeliverpool.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/smc_open.png" width="100" alt="Open Data - Liverpool" align="left" hspace="5" style="float:left;margin:2px"></b></span></p>



<p><span>Liverpool Social Media Cafe has announced it's next event featuring open data projects </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:100%;text-align:left;font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,Kalimati,sans-serif">Open data is non-personally identifiable data
produced in the course of an organisation’s ordinary business, which has been released under an unrestricted licence (like the </span><a title="Open Government Licence" href="http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/" style="font-size:100%;text-align:left;font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,Kalimati,sans-serif" target="_blank">Open Government Licence</a><span style="font-size:100%;text-align:left;font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,Kalimati,sans-serif">).</span></p>



<p><span style="font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,Kalimati,sans-serif;font-size:100%;text-align:left">Open Data can be used to identify business
oportunities, create services for local government and help the public access other services.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,Kalimati,sans-serif;font-size:100%;text-align:left"></span><span style="font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,Kalimati,sans-serif;font-size:100%;text-align:left">You are invited to attend and discuss open data uses and listen to our 3 informative
talks from;</span></p>
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<p><strong>Our Speakers<br></strong>Julian Tait <strong><a title="Open Data Manchester" href="http://opendatamanchester.org.uk/" target="_blank">Open Data Manchester<br></a></strong>Jordy Van Kuijk <strong><a title="Connected Liverpool" href="http://www.connectedliverpool.co.uk/" target="_blank">Connected Liveprool<br>


</a></strong>Zarino Zappia, VP of Product, <strong><a href="https://scraperwiki.com/" target="_blank">ScraperWiki</a></strong></p>
<p>Date: 2nd August<br>Time: 6pm<br>Venue: Static Gallery, Roscoe Lane, Liverpool.<span style="font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,Kalimati,sans-serif;font-size:100%;text-align:left">  </span></p>
<p><strong style="text-align:left;font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,Kalimati,sans-serif;font-size:100%"><a href="http://socialmediacafeliverpool.wordpress.com/book-now/" title="Social Media Cafe Liverpool - open data " target="_blank">Book Now</a> </strong></p>



<p>Social Media Cafe Liveprool are fun and informing events for web and social media professionals. </p>
<p><strong>Follow us on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/smcliv" title="twitter" target="_blank">@smcliv</a></strong></p>
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