The boat of knowledge....

Yesterday evening I went to the information and knowledge managment (IKM) 'borrel' in The Hague. This was the third one - they take place every three months or so - and it is always a great opportunity to find out what colleagues are up to and to make plans for future work. It is also usually very 'gezellig' - and this one was no exception...

One of the really nice things we were talking about yesterday was the common intention to try to hold the annual KM4Dev meeting in the Netherlands in 2007. We were ambitiously talking about a multi-centre, roaming meeting - visiting different institutions by boat. I'm not sure how practicable that is with hindsight but it did seem a really good idea at the time.

For those of you who don't know, a 'borrel' is a great Dutch institution involving after work drinks and, if you're very lucky, is also involves 'flametjes' which are very spicy small spring rolls. 'Gezellig' can be roughly translated as cosy and fun.