[od-discuss] Notes from WG call 6th September

Thu Nov 29 06:39:51 UTC 2012

On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Mike Linksvayer <ml at gondwanaland.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 3:13 AM, Daniel Dietrich
> <daniel.dietrich at okfn.org> wrote:
>> 4. Discussion of revision to Open Definition as per Mike Linksvayer's proposal. See pad. Agreed on this.
>>
>> ACTION: Mike Linksvayer to write up a brief explanation of reason for this new clause with reference to existing licenses where this has been issue.
>
> First, I wrapped the text and submitted
> https://github.com/okfn/opendefinition/pull/1 as Rufus sort of
> suggested on call. Here's an easier to read diff
> https://github.com/mlinksva/opendefinition/commit/43a9bf2c60147351d6d30cfcbce6507cf8a2e53b
>
> I'm probably going to suggest one further change for readability and
> accuracy before sending a draft writeup, within the next few days.

I changed my mind about further changes but still owe followup.

>> 5. Kenyan OGD license compliance with OD. Daniel did contact them 15th August but no replay. Discussion on how we are doing on reaching out, following up with non compliant licenses issues. Agreed we could do much better and that it is important to track this and to publicly document our concerns and attempts.
>>
>> ACTION: Daniel to follow up Kenya OGD license compliance
>> ACTION: Daniel to create document (spreadsheet?) of people we have contacted on license compliance and any response.
>
> IIRC Ireland is the one not contacted at all thus far.
>
>> ACTION: Daniel + Mike: blog post about update and possibly (separate) re non-conformant licenses.
>
> Will work on this per above.

TK

>> There is also an action with no name associated with it:
>>
>> ACTION: Who? EFF OAL move on website (from non-comformant to comformant-historical)
>>
>> Who was going to do that?
>
> I inserted action item so that it doesn't get missed again, but
> someone who has access to
> http://opendefinition.org/licenses/nonconformant/ and
> http://opendefinition.org/licenses/ will have to do it.
>
> I assume these are just wordpress pages as I can't find in any
> https://github.com/okfn repository.

Thanks to Daniel for giving me access to the OD WordPress. I moved EFF
OAL from noncomformant to comformant (old section).

Mike