[okfn-coord] Aidinfo contract

Jordan S Hatcher jordan at opencontentlawyer.com
Wed Apr 1 06:46:45 UTC 2009


I chatted with him briefly as well about the legal bits, and I'm happy  
to contribute to the contracting on the legal side.  This was a great  
contact to make and hopefully we can get more involved!

~Jordan


On 1 Apr 2009, at 01:19, Jonathan Gray wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Simon Parrish - who spoke at OKCon - is interesting in contracting the
> OKF to help with some of the things they are working on (data
> discovery, standards, legal options, community building, ...). We plan
> to meet up with him in the next couple of weeks. What do people think?
>
> Becky - it would be great if you were free at some point to come along
> with Rufus and I to meet Simon, as I understand you're particularly
> interested in open knowledge for development?
>
> Very best,
>
> Jonathan
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Simon Parrish <simon at devinit.org>
> Date: Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:16 PM
> Subject: aidinfo - next steps
> To: rufus.pollock at okfn.org, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>
>
>
> Rufus, Jonathan,
>
>
>
> Well done for organizing such an interesting and fun event on
> Saturday. It was good to engage with the OK crowd.
>
>
>
> We discussed the possibility of a role for OKF to provide some support
> to aidinfo. I would like to follow up with this.
>
>
>
> As agreed I have made a list of areas I think we need some support –
> I’m sure it is not exhaustive,  nor is it intended to be a list of
> things I am asking OKF for help with - there are other tech partners
> that will be involved with the IATI/aidinfo initiatives that I’m sure
> will also have a role to play here, but I have a feeling you guys
> could provide valuable expertise into some of these areas.
>
>
>
> Can we meet to discuss this further? I could  get to London any day
> this week, or mon/fri next week. (I could probably juggle things to be
> more flexible next week if necessary)
>
>
>
> For info,  I also attach the (rather long) IATI scoping paper (not yet
> available for consultation, so grateful if you could not circulate too
> widely at this stage)
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
> Simon
>
> Simon Parrish | aidinfo @ Development Initiatives | * email:
> simon at devinit.org | : Web: http://www.aidinfo.org  | : Web:
> http://www.devinit.org  | : Web: http://www.commit4africa.org  | ( UK
> mobile: +44 (0) 7794 147 644| ( Skype: simon.parrish73
>
> Independent research on aid, development policy, NGOs and government  
> relations
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> Jonathan Gray
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> <Technical Support for  
> aidinfo 
> .doc 
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