[okfn-advisory] Open Knowledge International Advisory Council - reaching out

Sun Feb 25 11:55:44 UTC 2018

Dear Naomi, all

also follow the lines given by Peter below, and I also miss an annual OKCon
in London, Warsaw or Geneva or wherever it took / will take place...as a
meeting place for the community, for friends and like-minded, for knowledge
exchange and discussions on regional trends and developments, to learn and
to teach (provide best practise), discuss technologies and start new
projects - and always a travel back home with a pocket full of new ideas
and inspirations as well as a broader network of great contacts ....
Although other formats tried to cover this (ODI Summit or Euroean Data
Forum come to my mind) this was never the same....

2 questions coming to my mind:

A) where is OKI at the moment where should it go to; for me (also being
involved in the OK AT chapter that is still active but also lost ground in
recent years, as well as other OD initiatives as ODI Vienna or OpenScience
strategies and open data research projects and still the OD initiatives of
City of Vienna and the Austrian Gov):

For me OKFN was always standing for (focused on) the societal challenges /
part of the Open Data & the Open Knowledge idea
Is this still the focus and vision? Is this what OKI stands for?

B) how can the Advisory Council help / be involved and in which formats?
Usually a board is invited to review: vision - strategy - projects -
organisational development - sometimes even finances with at least an
annual meeting and e.g. quarterly calls...
What is the idea here for the future?

Happy to get on a call to learn and discuss togeter and provide support
where useful and feasible (in reards to expertise and time)!
Best regards from sunny but cold Vienna - Martin

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2018-02-24 13:08 GMT+01:00 glyn moody <glyn.moody at gmail.com>:

> I agree with Peter on pretty much everything there. happy to talk if
> it is going to help...
>
> On 24 February 2018 at 12:05, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Thanks Naomi,
> > Feel free to share with anyone relevant.
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 1:32 PM, Naomi Lillie <naomi.lillie at okfn.org>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear all,
> >>
> >> May I introduce you to Mark Gibbs (COO) and Paul Walsh (CPO), in CC, who
> >> are undertaking the overall leadership of the organisation since Pavel's
> >> departure late last year.
> >>
> >> Paul and Mark are looking to reboot OKI - particularly our Advisory
> >> Council, where we are very keen to re-engage. They would like to reach
> out
> >> to you to look at how the Advisory Council can guide OKI through this
> period
> >> of change, refocusing on our vision and mission, and looking ahead to
> new
> >> opportunities.
> >
> >
> > I have valued my association with OKF (sic) very highly, both informally
> and
> > on Open Definition, Open Science and Open Access  and felt that OKFest
> > Helsinki 2012 was one of the high points in my Open life. I have given a
> > great deal of voluntary time to OKF. I know that OKF->OKI was a painful
> > process and wanted to help. When Omidyar required a review OKF (ca
> 2014??)
> > the reviewer spent a lot of time with me - which was useful. However
> > afterwards I expected that as a member of the Advisory Board I would get
> a
> > copy of the confidential report. In fact this was refused and I have
> never
> > seen what the recommendations were and have never been consulted since. I
> > talked (online) with Pavel to represent my concerns but it seemed clear
> that
> > I was not wanted.
> >
> > I now have no idea what the formal mission of OKI is and what - at a less
> > formal role - it does on the ground. I still have random contacts with
> the
> > Open Access, Open Science and Open Definition lists and I think I am
> still
> > formally on the latter but haven't seen business recently.
> >
> >>
> >> We wondered whether you would be interested in joining a call in March,
> to
> >> touch base and consider how we connect in future. Do let us know if you
> >> would be interested in this, either as a group or individually.
> >
> >
> > I am interested because of my past association and input.  I used to
> enjoy
> > very much going to OKF events both in UK and annually. But I don't know
> > whether OKI runs events in UK any more. I had mentally reserved this
> years
> > OKFest-redux to reconnect - meet people, get ideas - but that got
> cancelled.
> > I think that unless I actually meet people I probably don't have enough
> > input and output.
> >
> > As some of you know I have set up my own non-profit, ContentMine, to
> > liberate public scientific knowledge from the unjust enclosures of the
> > megapublishers and universities (yes). In some since this is a microcosm
> of
> > part of OKI - working in a smaller area but based on Advocacy, Community
> and
> > Tools - very similar to OKI's mission. In fact we shared an H2020
> project -
> > FutureTDM - between OKI (Sander vdW) and ContentMine. It suffered from
> the
> > awful bureaucracy of Europrojects, and none of us felt happy. So I am
> > aligned at a general level.
> >
> > I have seen many organsiations got through a "10-year glitch" - examples
> are
> > Wikipedia, PLOS, OKF, where the founders move on having created a
> non-profit
> > with high ideals but  a more business-focussed team and less space for
> > visionaries. They get involved the business process (necessary,
> especially
> > legal and financial) but they lose the dynamism of I the initial vision -
> > working in Rufus' basement or ContentMine working in Makespace craft
> room. I
> > loved the C4 space in London - where you could drop in and meet people. I
> > loved OKCon in London. I miss them. I think Wikimedia has pulled
> through, I
> > think PLOS has lost everything, I don't know about OKI.
> >
> > Put another way - and perhaps harshly - what are the specific challenges
> > that OKI is involved in where I might be able to contribute? I am not
> > particularly good at running organizations so can't help with the general
> > process of how to run a non-profit with established staff, premises,
> etc. If
> > there are specific challenges that OKI is involved with I'd be
> interested to
> > see whether I had something to contribute.
> >
> > I will certainly join the call. The clearer that I can see the immediate
> > challenges and the long term vision, the more useful I will be.
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > P.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Peter Murray-Rust
> > Reader Emeritus in Molecular Informatics
> > Unilever Centre, Dept. Of Chemistry
> > University of Cambridge
> > CB2 1EW, UK
> > +44-1223-763069
> >
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>
> Glyn
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