[okfn-discuss] OFCOM Public Service Publisher (PSP) consultation response

Thu Mar 22 10:45:20 UTC 2007

ORG are definitely on-board as signatories. My understanding is that Becky
will put some time on the draft today / tomorrow.

Thanks everyone for pushing this on. I support the addition of 'scenarios'
and more expansive definitions of 'open' data / content.

Bests

On 3/22/07, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
>
> Saul Albert wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 04:03:44PM +0000, Tim Cowlishaw wrote:
> >>    Happy to draft these in, if everyone agrees....
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I had a go at synthesising my draft and Rufus' comments:
> >
> >
> http://www.openrightsgroup.org/orgwiki/index.php/Ofcom_PSP_Consultation_March_2007#Draft_Response
>
> Great work Saul.
>
> > At Rufus' suggestion I removed the p2p bit and the semweb bit - perhaps
> > these are the kinds of projects the psp we call for could support -
> > rather than core properties of the psp itself. This makes it even
>
> Yes I think it would be cool if they did do that but I think at this
> stage it would be taking us a bit far off-topic.
>
> > simpler and shorter - which I like.
>
> I've added a scenarios section which tries to convert our general
> suggestions into a couple of concrete examples. Also do we need a
> definition of open content/open data somewhere -- perhaps as a
> postscript (given that their consultation site is called open media
> network I'm concerned their meaning of open is much more limited than
> ours).
>
> > However, I haven't had time to add Tim and Martin's ideas - perhaps
> > you'd have time to do this Tim? I'm afraid I'm under the gun for the
> > next few weeks so won't have a chance.
> >
> > Also I remember Becky Hogge saying she could do some work on this. I
> > think it still needs some development - and then some promotion to get
> > lots of good signatories.
>
> Given time constraints I think we will have to keep this fairly
> restricted (though we could do a later call via boingboing which would
> add weight)
>
> Current potential signatories:
>
>    * Open Knowledge Foundation
>    * Free Culture UK
>    * Open Rights Group (need to confirm)
>    * Knowledge Ecology International (was cptech) -- need to contact
>    * ? other suggestions
>
> If we want individual signatories we could put this out to various lists
> though I am wary of doing this given time limit (and need to corral the
> responses).
>
> ~rufus
>

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