[okfn-coord] OKF COMMUNIA expenses

Wed Mar 11 09:53:53 UTC 2009

This is fine with me but I'm not clear what implications this has for OKF funds.

Rufus

2009/3/10 Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>:
> Hi all,
>
> The upcoming COMMUNIA workshop will include an afternoon session on
> the WG for public domain calculators (WG 6). I have been in touch with
> Andy Kaplan-Myrth and Jon Phillips about this - who are working on the
> Canadian calculator, which is probably most advanced calculator so
> far.
>
> I have been told by COMMUNIA HQ that we can use some of our OKF
> COMMUNIA budget for other participants. I think it would be valuable
> to have either Jon or Andy to talk about the Canadian calculator - to
> help catalyse our work in this area and to give a detailed
> presentation on what they have done, how it fits in with the Open
> Library and so on. What do others think?
>
> Andy would probably be best, and we'd have to get him a flight from
> Canada. The OKF COMMUNIA budget can generally be used for travel costs
> associated with attending COMMUNIA events. I suspect it may be a
> worthwhile use of those funds to have better speakers at our event -
> as I don't anticipate we are likely to be bringing more than 2-3
> people at once to other COMMUNIA events in the future. For personal
> reasons I'd rather have a PD calculator session in London, where many
> of us can easily attend - than, say, in Amsterdam.
>
> My feeling is that the PD calculators are important - and the OKF is
> in a good position to act as a 'central point of reference' for their
> development:
>
>  http://okfn.org/wiki/PublicDomainCalculators
>
> --
> Jonathan Gray
>
> Community Coordinator
> The Open Knowledge Foundation
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