[okfn-discuss] Governance and structure of the Open Knowledge Foundation and its activities

Wed Nov 25 14:11:11 UTC 2009

2009/11/24 Claudia Mueller-Birn <clmb at cs.cmu.edu>:
> Hi Rufus,
>
> Thanks for your comments.  I just had a look again on the Website, and I am going to propose some improvements ... not tonight ...But another quick question about the general organizational structure of OKF. At the moment the OKFoundation is working in the UK, but is there any possibility to, well how I name it, have subsidiaries, oh yes, like Wikipedia? In every country is another non-profit. Maybe it make sense just because of fund-raising... ?!?!
>
> What do you think?

Good question and this is something there has already been some
thought about as we have recently had interest in setting up an OKF
Germany chapter.

We already have people involved in what we do from several different
places around the world and many of our projects being "online" are
clearly international. At the same time it is the UK where we are
officially registered as an entity and it clearly makes sense to have
associated "subsidiaries" or "chapters" in other countries.

So the answer is: yes there is very much a possibility of having
official OKF chapters in other countries (e.g. OKF Germany or OKF USA
or ...) -- in fact not only is this a possibility but it would be a
very welcome development!

Rufus