[okfn-coord] Little book of openness?

[Jordan S Hatcher]

On 8 Apr 2009, at 08:16, Saul Albert wrote:

> Great idea Jonathan!

+1

>
> On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 09:08:28PM +0100, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>> It would try to cut to the chase about what excites people about open
>> knowledge - and present evidence, arguments, anecdotes and metaphors
>> aimed at the general public.
>
> It sounds like the Little Red Book of Openness - which is not a bad
> marketing ploy.
>
+1 here too...

> Perhaps it could be little and red, and decorated with this free
> wallpaper: http://chinabone.theps.net/~saul/docs/stuff/openpaper.png

Cool paper!  My thought though, related to your point below, is how  
"openness" is defined.  The paper uses the non-commercial CC symbols,  
which highlights something we should discuss in relation to the focus  
of the book. NC isn't "open" under the open definition.  Also it might  
be useful, as we now do licensing through the Open Data Commons  
project, if we didn't over-emphasize CC, especially as I see that our  
main strength distinguishing us from them is the stance we take on  
"open" as not allowing for non-commercial restrictions (and no-derivs).

But maybe that debate around open is the very thing that should be in  
there...

~Jordan

>
> I think it would also be useful to have some level of critical  
> approach
> to the subject.
>
> This doesn't need to be the browbleating neighsaying of people like
> Andrew Keeen (who recently tried, unsuccessfully, to friend me on fb!)
> it can be more sophisticated clarifications of and ruminations on
> Openness in political, social, economic terms.
>
> The pliability of the term (Open markets, open source (rather than  
> FS),
> emotional openness) all these are reasons that the term is so  
> 'sticky',
> but also why it's often misunderstood or misappropriated for
> distracting causes.
>
> So the little red book of openness could tackle that head-on, and find
> critical voices to explain and play with this mess, rather than just
> sampling from the same hymnal.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Saul.
>
>
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