[okfn-coord] Meeting with Shuttleworth Foundation tomorrow

Thu May 29 11:15:58 UTC 2008

Dear Jonathan,

Great work on getting an intro here. It will be good to raise our 
profile with them and the topics you're suggesting seem fine. I think a 
general pitch along the lines of Open Knowledge is the next logical step 
from Open Source would be good. By pointing out some of the 
oft-discussed analogies and discussing packaging-material-for-reuse one 
can lead naturally into CKAN and the Open Shakespeare/Milton.

~rufus

On 28/05/08 14:39, Jonathan Gray wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Just to say I'm speaking to Mark Surman from the Shuttleworth tomorrow 
> afternoon about becoming an official partner of OpenEverything.
> 
> I will also make preliminary enquiries about the possibility of getting 
> funded by the Shuttleworth Foundation:
> 
>   http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/funding/getting-funded
> 
> I will also ask him about who it would be best to talk to at the Young 
> Foundation about getting general overhead funding, and/or specific 
> project funding, for the OKF - as they are in contact with them about 
> OpenEverything.
> 
>   http://www.youngfoundation.org.uk/
> 
> I will enquire about:
> 
>  * CKAN,
>  * Weaving History,
>  * Where does my money go?
>  * a project - much like the JISC bid - to develop Open Shakespeare, 
> Open Milton and others in an educational setting alongside students and 
> lecturers. Basically a toolkit for open resources in the humanities.
> 
> Let me know if there's anything you'd like me to specifically ask or 
> talk about!
> 
> Jonathan