[foundation-board] Approving OKFO Austria and an official chapter of the OKF

Thu Jun 9 12:49:06 UTC 2011

FWIW I would ask them to appoint Daniel as a board member too - so he
can provide additional oversight. And also to add at least one person
(perhaps me, perhaps Jordan, perhaps someone else) from OKF Central to
subscribe to the internal discussion list and to have decision making
authority.

Does anyone else on the board speak German?

J.

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> We need to make a decision regarding this proposed Austrian Chapter
> (this has been in process on/off for last eight months with Jonathan
> and Jordan and involved).
>
> The basic setup looks OK (see below), they seem keen and we do know
> the core people and they seem reasonable. Does anyone object to us
> formally approving them as a chapter? They would like to do an
> announce at the the Open Gov Conference in Austria next week so if we
> had a decision by then that would be good but if not we could it would
> not be the end of the world.
>
> Rufus
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From:  <m.kaltenboeck at semantic-web.at>
> Date: 2011/4/18
> Subject: OKFN Austrian Chapter and OGD2011 Conference
> To: rufus pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>
> Cc: Thomas Thurner <t.thurner at semantic-web.at>
>
>
> Dear Rufus,
>
> as I could not catch you (you were offline at this time) on skype last Friday,
> 15.4. 2011, 03.00pm CET - as agreed in the email below - I try to summarise the
> 2 current issues as follows to discuss it via email:
>
>
> .) Austrian Chapter of OKFN (OKFO)
>
> As pointed out several times we are very interested in opening up the
> Austrian Chapter
> of the OKFN - as we have already founded a registered association
> (Verein in German language)
> - the Open Knowledge Forum Austria/Österreich (as 'Foundation' is not
> allowed in the name of an Austrian
> registered association).
>
> We have set up an executive board with the following members
>
> Andreas Langegger (ehem. Keppler Universität Linz)
> Wolfgang Halb (Joanneum Research)
> Robert Harm (Open3)
> Georg Güntner (Salzburg Research)
> Bernhard Schandl (University Vienna)
> Bernhard Krabina (KDZ - Centre for research in public administration)
> Johann Höchtl (Danube University of Krems)
> Thomas Thurner (SWC)
> Martin Kaltenböck (SWC)
>
> As well as an Advisory Board with the following members
>
> Jürgen Wutzlhofer (Councellor City of Vienna)
> Werner Haas (Professor at Joanneum Research)
> Noella Edelmann (Danube University Krems)
> Paul Kral (Learn and Lead)
> Christof Tschohl (Botzmann Institute for Human Rights)
> - additional members requersted -
>
> The OKF Oesterreich (OKFO) will work on topics around open knowledge -
> as open science, open education and/or open data.
>
> We had a look at the 'Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)' of the German
> Chapter and adapted it (as attached) for the OKFO - as
> a possible solution for this Memorandum - many thanks for your
> feedback on this suggestion...
>
> Furthermore we would like to have an official statement for the OKFO
> starting to become active in the course of the OGD2011
> conference on 16 June 2011 in the course of the final statement of the
> conference (possibly by you & me)
>
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