Another unhurried week, with amongst others work done on

• Meeting with a provincial council clerk and deputy clerk about open provincial council data
• Discussing future collaboration ideas with the Frisian library service
• Open data working group meeting in Fryslan, planning the next data release
• Session with the Province of Fryslan on using the fall open data release to support their energy transition program
• Catching up with a British colleague talking about unhurriedness, and planning a next meet-up of our ‘friends of Tim’ group (we met twice last year in memory of Tim’s passing)
• Catching up with a French colleague discussing open data developments in France and francophone Africa
• Discussing a shared list of data sets to be published by all 12 Dutch provinces, representing two provinces in a meeting of 10 provinces and the national data portal team.
• Discussing the master thesis project a student, Rik, is doing as an intern at The Green Land
• Revising an open data program proposal for the Malaysian government
• Reviewing two country chapters on Netherlands and Belgium of a European research project
• Started deleting my Facebook data, and revising the way I use FB
• Restored my garden sensor hub in its proper place and started using a ThingsNode to measure temperature in our bike shed, writing the data to a spreadsheet with IFTTT in the way Peter Rukavina documented earlier this week.
• Announced the Smart Stuff That Matters unconference and bbq for August, in honor of Elmine’s birthday