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

[Jonathan Gray]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Becky Hogge <becky.hogge at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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).


Unfortunately given the timeframe and the domain specific knowledge
required, I think getting external help is unlikely to be effective.
It might be that participating in tender is not very time consuming.
If we decide to go ahead (which I'm getting the sense the board thinks
is a good idea) I'll keep you all updated, of course.

J.

> 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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