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

Fri Nov 2 20:53:11 UTC 2012

Thanks for your message Jordan.
And ditto from me regarding your last paragraph, apart from I think I should step aside, if at all possible I would like to nominate someone from Jisc who might be able to contribute more that I have the time to. 

I would support the nomination of Mike as Chair btw.
Best,
Rachel

-----Original Message-----
From: od-discuss-bounces at lists.okfn.org [mailto:od-discuss-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Jordan S Hatcher
Sent: 02 November 2012 18:19
To: rufus.pollock at okfn.org
Cc: od-discuss at lists.okfn.org
Subject: Re: [od-discuss] A Chair for the Open Definition Advisory Council

On 2 Nov 2012, at 15:28, Rufus Pollock 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.

Just for reference for everyone, this is who we publish is on the AC on the website:

http://opendefinition.org/advisory-council/

To save everyone from looking, this is:

* Rachel Bruce. 
* Jordan Hatcher. 
* Tom Lee. 
* Mike Linksvayer. 
* Paul Miller. 
* Peter Murray-Rust. 
* Rufus Pollock.
* Rob Styles. 
* Peter Suber. 
* Luis Villa. 
* Jo Walsh.

The bios are just a bit out of date -- unless Luis you've gone back to being  a second year law student?  Perhaps updating the website as well should be on the list of actions for the OD AC refresh.

Also, my sincere apologies for not contributing much to this group for the past year -- been extremely busy (a lame excuse but true nevertheless).  I'd love to stay on and contribute where/when I can, which I hope to be more in the future as I reshuffle some priorities, but understand if we need to make room in the future for people that have more cycles to devote to this.

I'm +1 for both Mike and Daniel

Thanks

Jordan

> 
> 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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