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

Fri Jun 10 06:06:39 UTC 2011

On 9 Jun 2011, at 13:49, Jonathan Gray wrote:

> 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?

Daniel seems like a good option.

I don't speak enough German to be useful on a german language discussion list (I can't do much more than order food!)

Jordan

> 
> 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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>> 
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