[od-discuss] A Chair for the Open Definition Advisory Council

Fri Nov 2 15:29:57 UTC 2012

Hrm, I'm not sure how I missed the call announcements - my apologies for that.

(And +1 to anything Mike chairs.)

On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> @Luis: I'm not sure it is that long since we had a meeting: we have
> had at least 2 AC meetings this year where we reviewed licenses for
> conformance with the last being in September:
>
> http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/od-discuss/2012-February/000112.html
> http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/od-discuss/2012-August/000168.html
>
> That said reviewing the AC list would be a very good idea so +1.
>
> Rufus
>
> On 2 November 2012 15:22, Luis Villa <luis at tieguy.org> wrote:
>> It's been so long that anything was formally done as an AC- can we
>> review who is actually on it? :)
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 6:39 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I think our recent meetings have been very useful and there is an
>>> increasingly important role for the Advisory Council in reviewing the
>>> growing number of "open" licenses especially those associated with
>>> open government data projects.
>>>
>>> I think it would be useful at this point to explicitly designate a
>>> "Chair" (and possibly "secretary") of the AC who can help coordinate
>>> and chair meetings etc.
>>>
>>> I'd also like to make a specific proposal here and nominate Mike
>>> Linksvayer as a chair of the Advisory Council :-) (with this to run
>>> for an initial 12 months, say - so Mike doesn't feel indefinitely
>>> committed!).
>>>
>>> What do my fellow AC members think?
>>>
>>> In addition, would anyone like to propose themselves for the role of
>>> secretary (which has been informally done by Daniel over the last few
>>> months)?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Rufus
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