[okfn-coord] Draft send Jordan text.

Thu Jul 2 13:34:44 UTC 2009

2009/7/2 Jordan S Hatcher <jordan at opencontentlawyer.com>:
> Hi Rufus et al,
>
> I'm kinda rubbish at writing these, so any thoughts would be welcome.  OSM
> has offered to help promote a Send Jordan to SOTM campaign for me to talk
> about the ODbL. I mentioned this awhile back to this list as a possibility.
> My travel is all booked and so I have fairly firm figures on all this.
>
> Questions:
>
> -- can we collect donations through our paypal and then I ask for
> reimbursement?

Yes

> -- how would we separate out donations? Is there a way to put a note on the
> donation that it is for this campaign?

Hmm. I thought the donate setup allowed you to add a text note for
this kind of stuff but I can't check without actually entering my
bank info. I suggest people tag it with "sotm" or the like if they can
-- and if they can't it isn't a big deal we don't receive many
donations so it should not be hard to sort these out.

> -- Rufus - did you want to fundraise for your travel too?

Let's not worry about me -- you're the priority here.

> If any of this is a problem, OSMF has offered to act as the donation
> collector / distributor.

We can do it either way: e.g. you can donate direct to the Open
Knowledge Foundation at http:// ... or to the OSMF (who will pass the
funds on): ....

Rufus

> Thanks
>
> ~Jordan
>
> ====
> Send Jordan to State of the Map!
>
> Open Data Commons co-founder, and principal drafter of the Open Database
> Licence, Jordan Hatcher, is on his way to Amsterdam to speak at State of the
> Map. But even though the licence may be free as in beer and free as in
> liberty, it isn't free to travel from the UK to Amsterdam. Jordan's work for
> Open Data Commons and the several hundred hours of attorney time needed as
> part of the drafting process were all donated pro bono, and Jordan has
> kindly agreed to take time off from work to travel to Amsterdam to speak at
> SOTM. Open Data Commons is a project of the Open Knowledge Foundation and
> we're asking for donations to cover his cost of travel to speak at State of
> the Map about the new licence.
>
> -- 159 € for return train travel Reading, UK to Amsterdam
> -- 280€ for 2 nights hotel
> -- 32 € for bicycle rental at Damstraat
> -- 75€ = 25 €/day for incidentals/food while traveling-- 100€ Community
> Passport registration at SOTM
>
> Total 646€ (about 554£)
>
> All money donated in excess of the costs of travel will go towards the goals
> of the Open Knowledge Foundation, a non-profit promoting open knowledge:
> that's any kind of information – sonnets to statistics, genes to geodata –
> that can be freely used, reused, and redistributed. OKFN organizes events
> like OKCon, run projects like Open Shakespeare, and develop tools like CKAN
> and KnowledgeForge to help people create, find and share open material.
>
> Please go to
>
> http://okfn.org/support/donate/
>
> INSERT ANY ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS
>
> ====
> ____
> Mr. Jordan S Hatcher, JD, LLM
>
> jordan [at] opencontentlawyer dot com
>
> More details at:
> <http://www.jordanhatcher.com>
>
> Open Data at:
> <http://www.opendatacommons.org>
>
>

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