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

Thu Feb 10 16:59:21 UTC 2011

On 9 February 2011 12:56, paula le dieu <paula at ledieu.org> wrote:
> 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.

+1.

A thought - given the natural fit of this project with OKF's
activities and the potential returns for CKAN as outlined by Jason
might it be appropriate to investigate resourcing the bidding process
from operating surplus, rather than trying to stretch our existing
resources? For example, we could draft in someone with bidding
expertise to support Jonathan (I believe Rufus in contact already with
an experienced EU-level bidder who emerged from the Project
Coordinator recruitment process).

As ever, I'd be happier making that judgement if we had an approved
business plan and projected income for 2011 in place, but I'm hoping
that will be something Jason can support us in moving toward in the
first quarter of this year.

Best wishes

Becky

> 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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