[okfn-announce] Open Knowledge Foundation Newsletter No. 3

[Jonathan]

Welcome to the third Open Knowledge Foundation newsletter. Scroll below 
for information about:

* an Open Service Definition
* KForge v0.13
* a new advisory board member


AN OPEN SERVICE DEFINITION
==========================

Following extensive discussions in the last couple of months on the 
okfn-discuss mailing list, a first draft of an `Open Service Definition‘ 
is now available.

The definition has been kept simple - and builds on the Open Knowledge 
Definition and definitions of open source software.

Further notes and comments are available on the definition's web page, 
which is world editable to allow contributions and amendments from the 
community!

Open Service Definition <http://opendefinition.org/osd/>


KFORGE V.0.13
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After another six months of work we’ve released a new version of the 
KForge software. KForge/KnowledgeForge is one the OKF’s main activities 
with the KForge software being used to run the KnowledgeForge service.

Over two and half years after work first started the project is now 
fairly mature with a growing number of projects hosted on KnowledgeForge 
as well as a substantial number of ‘outside’ users. Given the stability 
of the codebase and the service we’ll be looking to go “1.0″ in the near 
future.

The 0.13 release of KForge provides several new features and bugfixes 
including support for installing KForge on a single virtual host.

KForge <http://www.kforgeproject.com/>


A NEW ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER
===========================

We are pleased to welcome Dr. Sören Auer onto our advisory board. He 
leads the research group Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web at 
Universität Leipzig. His research interests are semantic technologies 
and knowledge representation aspects of Open Knowledge environments.

Sören is founder of the open-source, adaptive knowledge engineering 
framework OntoWiki, founding member of the DBpedia project and chair of 
the first Social Semantic Web conference.

Sören Auer <http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~auer/>
OKF Advisory Board page <http://www.okfn.org/advisory_board/>
DBpedia <http://dbpedia.org/>


FURTHER INFORMATION
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If you would like to know more about what we are up to, please take a 
look at our active projects page.

http://www.okfn.org/projects/

If you are interested in participating in any of the OKF's projects, 
please see our participate page, or join the OKF discuss list.

http://www.okfn.org/participate/
http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss

For further news and comments, see our blog:

http://blog.okfn.org