[foundation-board] Does OKF want to go for data.gov.eu tender?

Wed Feb 9 12:56:43 UTC 2011

I agree with Jo's assessment and caveats. I think this is definitely worth
pursuing but capacity planning and assessing our contribution to such a
project is going to be key to making final call.

Regards
Paula

On 9 February 2011 12:46, Jo Walsh <metazool at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jonny, found an unfinished draft of response to your last mail about this.
> In short; the overlap with current OKF work looks significant, and if you
> are getting approaches for partnerships already, then it makes sense to me
> to go for this, however with caveats...
>
>
> On 01/02/2011 20:18, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>
>> a data.gov.eu tender
>>   * work is already underway as part of the publicdata.eu work
>>
>
>  I would be happy to lead work on a tender
>>
>
> These things can be a *huge* workload, a commitment of several months of
> your life at least to European grant-writing. Would OKF necessarily be the
> lead in a consortium, or would someone else take it on?
> Do you have advice about putting these things together? Worth talking it
> over with Soeren Auer, who has a lot of experience here?
>
>    * we have the capacity to deliver well on this
>>   * we manage this carefully and have a strong vision about why we are
>> doing this and how we want to do it
>> we need to start thinking long and hard now!
>>
>
> Imagine we'd need to find project partners who would handle maintenance and
> support work, OKF's role would be more networking / prototyping?
>
>  The recognised and widely used European
>> access point to government information.
>> a pilot data.gov.eu infrastructure
>>
>
> So a cautious yes...
>
>
>
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