Last week, the 18th MindTrek<\/a> festival took place in Tampere. Katri Lietsala<\/i>, who headed the event in its first years, says that back then MindTrek was a multimedia competition which introduced the players in the digital arena along with their best products. The city participated in the arrangements, and open events were held around Tampere. In recent years, MindTrek has struggled to find its direction: the competition has been dropped, and the whole event was about to end. This year, however, Timo “Media Master<\/a>” V\u00e4liharju announced the good news: MindTrek and COSS<\/a>, which he leads, will merge. Next year, the theme will be openness, and the program will focus on open source and open content production. My own wishes for the future are: 1) Renewed communication: improve the web site’s usability, publish the material in Finnish in addition to English and expand the program and the speaker introductions. 2) Make the theme of the event\u2014and the organizers\u2014more visible, so we do not have to guess. 3) Bring back the competition as a set of awards to recognize the past year’s accomplishments. \u2014 As for the rest, I think that the continuation of MindTrek in Tampere is a great thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last week, the 18th MindTrek festival took place in Tampere. Katri Lietsala, who headed the event in its first years, says that back then MindTrek was a multimedia competition which introduced the players in the digital arena along with their best products. The city participated in the arrangements, and open events were held around Tampere. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,11,12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-594","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-english-en","7":"category-english","8":"category-wordoftheweek","9":"category-wordoftheweek-en","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1332,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions\/1332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}