[okfn-discuss] Our vision: Why, How and What for the Open Knowledge Foundation

Tue Jul 14 16:27:37 UTC 2009

Rufus Pollock wrote:
> 2009/7/14 Andy Kaplan-Myrth<andy at kaplan-myrth.ca>:
>> ...is the Open Knowledge
>> Foundation actually a "foundation", i.e. with funding, like the Wikimedia
>> Foundation or the Mozilla Foundation?
>
> What do you mean by actually a "foundation". If you mean is that our
> formal name and are we incorporated as some kind of legal entity, then
> yes: we're a company limited by guarantee and that's our formal name.
> Re. funding I would guess we are more (rather) limited in our funding
> that either Wikimedia or Mozilla (at least at present!). However, I'm
> not sure money need be the determining characteristic -- how much
> money did wikimedia have when it began, how much did Apache?

Thanks -- that clears that up. I had thought of organizations called 
"Foundations" as supporting others through funding, but I'll 
recalibrate to include other forms of "support".

Cheers,
Andy

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Andy Kaplan-Myrth, M.A., LL.B.
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