[okfn-coord] Draft send Jordan text.

[Jonathan Gray]

The text looked great to me!

I've set up a page on the board wiki so we can track the contributions..

  http://okfn.org/board/wiki/Jordan_SOTM

Jonathan

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Rufus Pollock<rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> 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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Jonathan Gray

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