[foundation-board] Minutes of March OKF board meeting & DCMI update

Thu May 30 17:10:23 UTC 2013

Those are my kinda minutes, nice and short.

Disappointing re DCMI, but they say no very nicely and the grounds sound legitimate.

K

From: foundation-board-bounces at lists.okfn.org [mailto:foundation-board-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Laura James
Sent: 30 May 2013 13:51
To: OKF Board Mailing List
Subject: [foundation-board] Minutes of March OKF board meeting & DCMI update

The minutes of March's board meeting are now posted online: http://okfn.org/OKFgovernance/meetings/2013-03-12/

I regret to inform the board that DCMI have decided to proceed with the other party they have been discussing moving to, which we now know is ASIS&T. Their mail to Rufus and me is included below.

The board may be interested to note that we're now posting regular (every 1-2 weeks) updates on the OKFN-discuss list about key successes and activity.

Best regards,

Laura

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The DCMI Oversight Committee has reached a decision on its options for going forward.  The decision was an extremely difficult one to reach.  Of the three organizations I was authorized to approached that have common interests and public commitments as DCMI, the OC fairly quickly came to a conclusion that two presented excellent prospects for both an institutional home for DCMI and exciting prospects for collaboration.  Those two organizations were OKF and the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T).  Making a decision between these two was where the process got difficult and slow.  The OC outcome is to place DCMI under the institutional umbrella of ASIS&T.

The decision was quite difficult because both OKF and ASIS&T would provide DCMI with the institutional support it seeks, the level of autonomy and oversight necessary for DCMI to successfully pursue its agenda, and synergies that would bode well going forward.  In the end, the decision came down to the economics of operations in the US versus the UK. While the ongoing operational cost of a relationship between DCMI and OKF were quite attractive, the decision turned on taxation and potential set-up costs.

The Oversight Committee has asked me to extend its gratitude to OKF in general and the two of you in particular for entertaining the possibility of a formal relationship.  While the outcome may not be as hoped, there has been a heightened awareness on our part of the common ground we share with OKF and OKF's ongoing contributions to an open information environment.

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Dr Laura James

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