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

Wed Jan 28 16:31:29 UTC 2015

Hi Herb,

Jumping in here with apologies for the delay in response from (anyone from)
the central organisation. As you know Laura has moved on from her position
with Open Knowledge, so your email temporarily fell into a small void.

However, if it's not too late, I would suggest sending the note to the
following lists:

https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/od-discuss (topic-specific)
https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss (general list for all
of Open Knowledge community / the "hey everybody"-list)

Also, as Laura mentioned, we also have two non-public lists for
coordinators of Local Groups and Working Groups respectively. These are for
members-only, but the community managers (of which I am one) are happy to
relay important messages, and you (and others) are welcome to send forward
such notices when you see a need to reach all the far corners of the
community. To do so please use the local at okfn.org alias.

Lastly, we are experimenting with an online forum in order to lighten the
load on people's inboxes, and even if this forum hasn't really officially
been implemented as a formal supplement to the lists (and we're not sure it
will, hence the experimenting) it's still a good place to catch peoples
attention:

http://discuss.okfn.org/

I realize how confusing it must be to try to keep an overview of all these
channels, apologies for that as well. As a way to hopefully make it a
little easier, I'll be moving the above instructions onto a wiki-page, so
that going forward there will at least be a central (and hopefully
continually updated) place to consult whenever anyone across the community
needs to make an announcement beyond their own part of the network.

Hope this is useful,

-Christian

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On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 2:32 AM, Herb Lainchbury <herb at dynamic-solutions.com
> wrote:

> Hi Laura,
>
> As Chairperson, I would like to notify the relevant lists that we've
> started a new draft 2.1 of the definition, but it is not clear to me who to
> send it to other than od-discuss at lists.okfn.org.
>
> Should I also send it to local at okfn.org?
>
> Please advise.
>
> Thanks,
> Herb
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 9:57 PM, Laura James <laura.james at okfn.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Mike,
>>
>> I think those lists are closed ones (to keep traffic to a level that
>> means the lists are actually used) - one of the community managers (CCd)
>> will be able to help.
>>
>> On a related note, we might want to add the chair of this group to the
>> working group coordinators list, as other matters that come up there may be
>> relevant...
>>
>> Laura
>>
>> On 8 December 2014 at 22:29, Mike Linksvayer <ml at gondwanaland.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 11/16/2014 02:41 AM, Laura James wrote:
>>> > On 15 November 2014 22:08, Mike Linksvayer <ml at gondwanaland.com
>>> > <mailto:ml at gondwanaland.com>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >     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 looks very sensible. I'd suggest on (2) that as well as
>>> > okfn-discuss, the lists of Open Knowledge local group and working group
>>> > coordinators be informed. They can gather responses from their
>>> > respective groups and feed them back. This would also help secure good
>>> > input from international perspectives, as well as specialist topic
>>> areas.
>>>
>>> Edit: https://github.com/okfn/opendefinition/compare/6b116d3...ed1792e
>>>
>>> I page searched lists.okfn.org for local, coord, and work, and wasn't
>>> sure which list(s) you mean. Is there an address to reach these
>>> coordinators as a group? This (OD) group could certainly use the
>>> perspectives noted.
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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