[okfn-coord] Fwd: Sponsorship for open data and semantic web workshop

Wed Sep 9 09:45:42 UTC 2009

2009/9/9 Jordan S Hatcher <jordan at opencontentlawyer.com>:
> Just to quickly follow up on this as today is the first of the two
> semantic web meetings I'm attending as part of the sponsorship.  I

Is this the linkedata meetup in London this evening? If so fantastic
that you are going -- I didn't realize you were and was just about to
ping okfn-discuss to ask about it (btw: might be worth you pinging
there to say you'll be this evening as you never know who might be
going along who might want to meet an OKF board member and legal
expert ...).

> think we had broke my costs/fees down to £300 for both meetings as
> part of the £1000 sponsorship.  I propose to reduce this down to a
> flat £200, including travel, for both meetings, which should leave 800
> for the other costs and for the OKF coffers.

Formally I don't think tonight's meeting was part of the sponsorship
with Talis. Instead as I'd understood we'd budgeted around £300 for
you for the meeting November (which works out at the same thing
anyways).

If you are happy with a flat £200 that is fantastic as the more money
we have for other stuff the better :)

> If that sounds good to everyone, I'll invoice and send to Rufus.

That's good with me.

Rufus

> On 24 Aug 2009, at 16:03, Jordan S Hatcher wrote:
>
>> Great news indeed!
>>
>> Thanks for following up on this Jonathan.  I think we should include
>> your time spent so far (and the rest of your time moving forward on
>> this project) as part of the expenses (if we weren't thinking that
>> already).
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> ~Jordan
>>
>>
>> On 24 Aug 2009, at 15:51, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Just to let you all know, Talis have agreed to sponsor the Semantic
>>> Web workshop this autumn. Great news!
>>>
>>> Jonathan
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Leigh Dodds<leigh.dodds at talis.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Hi Jonathan, Rufus,
>>>>
>>>> We'll happily sponsor the workshop and the work you outlined for
>>>> £1000. What's your usual route for receiving donations/sponsorship
>>>> and
>>>> I'll set the wheels in motion.
>>>>
>>>> One thing that I hope that we can achieve as part of the LOD dataset
>>>> registration on CKAN is completing the prototype I did to load the
>>>> CKAN data into the Platform. IIRC Rufus wanted to port the Ruby
>>>> code I
>>>> wrote into Python so you could regularly reload the data. There was
>>>> also some additional work required at your end to make the relevant
>>>> URIs resolve.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> L.
>>>>
>>>> 2009/8/18 Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>:
>>>>> Dear Leigh,
>>>>>
>>>>> Many thanks for your email!
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Leigh
>>>>> Dodds<leigh.dodds at talis.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Yes we'd be interested in becoming an official sponsor for the
>>>>>> workshop.
>>>>>
>>>>> Brilliant!
>>>>>
>>>>>> Do you have an estimate of the level of sponsorship you need for
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> two activities you mention?
>>>>>
>>>>> I've consulted with our board, and we estimate £1000 should cover
>>>>> the
>>>>> registration of a critical mass of LOD datasets on CKAN, as well as
>>>>> Jordan's expenses.
>>>>>
>>>>> What do you think?
>>>>>
>>>>> Warm regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Jonathan Gray
>>>>>
>>>>> Community Coordinator
>>>>> The Open Knowledge Foundation
>>>>> http://www.okfn.org
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> 2009/8/6 Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>:
>>>>>>> Hi Leigh,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You may have seen our blog post on the 'Open Data and the
>>>>>>> Semantic
>>>>>>> Web' workshop this autumn:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://blog.okfn.org/2009/08/05/open-data-and-the-semantic-web-workshop-london-13th-november-2009/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I wondered whether Talis might be interested in becoming an
>>>>>>> official
>>>>>>> sponsor/partner for the workshop?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In particular we're currently seeking funds to:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> * ensure Jordan Hatcher can come along to speak about legal tools
>>>>>>> for open data (the ODbL, PDDL, ...);
>>>>>>> * register a critical mass of LOD datasets and other semantic web
>>>>>>> open data on CKAN in preparation for the workshop.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What do you think? Is this something that Talis might
>>>>>>> potentially be
>>>>>>> interested in?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Jonathan Gray
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Community Coordinator
>>>>>>> The Open Knowledge Foundation
>>>>>>> http://www.okfn.org
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Leigh Dodds
>>>>>> Programme Manager, Talis Platform
>>>>>> Talis
>>>>>> leigh.dodds at talis.com
>>>>>> http://www.talis.com
>>>>>>
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>>>> --
>>>> Leigh Dodds
>>>> Programme Manager, Talis Platform
>>>> Talis
>>>> leigh.dodds at talis.com
>>>> http://www.talis.com
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jonathan Gray
>>>
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