[od-discuss] broader community notice in license approval/OD update process (was Re: Nominate Aaron Wolf for Open Definition Advisory Council membership)

Sat Nov 15 22:37:49 UTC 2014

On the topic of adding Aaron to the Council, agreed. Mike, thanks for both
nominating and confirming.  Aaron, thanks again for your contributions thus
far, and congratulations. :)

As current chair, I favour further formalizing the process.  +1

I am not concerned with the additional time required to approve licenses
and as you say approvals the chair can always call for a timely response if
necessary.

On point 2) I would as that the list of parties / lists to notify be
specifically included as well.  Not sure if we need a process to add
parties to this list.  Could start with okfn-discuss to start.

I think this process would work well for OD updates and license approvals
as they would benefit from larger community feedback.

I think we can do approvals of new members on this list alone.

I wonder if for license approvals should the chair include the license
author/custodian and the requester (that these are not often different
parties) in the larger feedback summary so they can be aware that a
decision is being made.

Herb

On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Mike Linksvayer <ml at gondwanaland.com>
wrote:

> More than two weeks has past, with no -1s so clearly Aaron is now on
> the council, congratulations. :)
>
> I think what reminded me to nominate Aaron (though he's made many
> other fine contributions) was his insistence that we do a better job
> of notifying broader community about important OD-related
> developments. I think the 2.0 release was on net very positive, and
> brought out some scrutiny that maybe would not have occurred if we had
> just asked people to look at a draft. But we should ask people to look
> at drafts anyway, maybe they'll even look now that their interest is
> expressed.
>
> I suggest we formalize calling for broader community feedback, for
> both license approvals and OD updates. Right now
> opendefinition.org/licenses/process includes:
>
> "After submission, the Open Definition community will discuss on the
> mailing list and reach consensus. The Open Definition Advisory Council
> chair will summarize the consensus to the Advisory Council on the
> mailing list. If after two weeks at least two Advisory Council members
> approve the consensus summary on-list, and at least 75% of Advisory
> Council members expressing an opinion on the summary if any dissent,
> the website will be updated, and announcements made to public and
> submitter, as appropriate."
>
> Formalization of broader community feedback might make it look like:
>
> "1. After submission, the Open Definition community will discuss on
> the mailing list and reach consensus.
> 2. The Open Definition Advisory Council chair will summarize the
> consensus to the Advisory Council on the mailing list and to other
> relevant fora, okfn-discss at a minimum.
> 3a. If over next two weeks issues are raised which indicate a
> different consensus or further discussion needed, chair will step
> process back to first or second step as appropriate.
> 3b. Otherwise, chair calls for formal approval of consensus by Advisory
> Council.
> 4. If after two weeks at least three Advisory Council members approve
> the consensus summary on-list, and at least 75% of Advisory Council
> members expressing an opinion on the summary if any dissent, the
> website will be updated, and announcements made to public and
> submitter, as appropriate.
>
> This process will also apply to acceptance of new versions of the Open
> Definition itself."
>
> The obvious downside is more tedium and dragging out
> approval/acceptance process by another two weeks. I think that's fine.
> There's never any real rush to approve a license IMO, and if there is
> a real rush the chair could call for something expedited. I think
> license approvals as well as OD version acceptance should get a
> broader community call because people on this list alone can't be
> expected to understand all the pertinent background, other communities
> are the primarily ones impacted, and it is a chance to remind everyone
> about the OD.
>
> Mike
>
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 1:58 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>
> wrote:
> > +1
> >
> > On 17 October 2014 08:27, Andrew Katz <Andrew.Katz at moorcrofts.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> +1
> >>
> >> I also apologise for not having been more active on the list.
> >>
> >> Best
> >>
> >> Andrew
> >>
> >> > -----Original Message-----
> >> > From: od-discuss [mailto:od-discuss-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On
> Behalf Of
> >> > Mike
> >> > Linksvayer
> >> > Sent: 17 October 2014 01:58
> >> > To: od-discuss at lists.okfn.org
> >> > Subject: [od-discuss] Nominate Aaron Wolf for Open Definition Advisory
> >> > Council
> >> > membership
> >> >
> >> > I'm nominating Aaron Wolf to be an member of
> >> > http://opendefinition.org/advisory-council/
> >> >
> >> > His on-list contributions over the last months have been constructive
> >> > and on-
> >> > point. The council's work would benefit from his having an officious
> >> > vote.
> >> >
> >> > Disclosures: I've been advising Aaron's project Snowdrift.coop
> mentioned
> >> > in his
> >> > bio. I checked with Aaron and Herb to see if they each thought
> >> > nominating
> >> > Aaron is a good idea. Hopefully they each still agree. :)
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Bio:
> >> > Aaron Wolf is co-founder of Snowdrift.coop, an in-progress fundraising
> >> > system
> >> > working to address the collective-action dilemmas that affect the
> >> > funding of the
> >> > public commons. Otherwise, Aaron is a professional music teacher, an
> >> > amateur
> >> > scholar, and a social activist. He holds the distinction of producing
> >> > the internet's
> >> > most popular video for songs that teach brain anatomy. His website,
> >> > wolftune.com, includes several articles about Open Knowledge and
> related
> >> > topics, particularly pertaining to music.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Mike
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