[okfn-discuss] dead link / expired domain ?

[Tim Hubbard]

Perhaps the okf site should have an 'archive' section with pages for 
historical events such as this where associated materials could be 
moved into.  That would also mean that old OKCONs would be more 
clearly marked as in the past.  If the WSFII site is dead, perhaps a 
creating a page saying what it was would be good.  Quite a lot of 
sites do this with a banner to clearly identify pages that will not 
be updated.

Maintaining institutional memory doesn't seem such a priority when 
things in open data are moving so fast, however believe me (speaking 
from experience as the world right now looks back on 10 years since 
the human genome project was completed) such things are important, 
else the media will reinvent and modify the past for you!

Best wishes,

Tim

At 00:43 +0100 13/6/10, Jo Walsh wrote:
>On 12/06/2010 15:26, Stefano Costa wrote:
>>Hi,
>>at http://www.okfn.org/projects/ there is a link to WSFII pointing to
>>http://www.okfn.org/wsfii/ but the redirect is apparently pointing to
>>http://www.wsfii.org/ which is just a spam site.
>>
>>And I don't even know what WSFII is :-)
>
>WSFII was wonderful. What did it stand for? World *something* Free 
>Information Infrastructures; a conference held in Limehouse Town 
>Hall in 2005 which Rufus and I co-organised with Saul Albert of The 
>People Speak - essentially it was the first Open Knowledge 
>Conference.
>We did a whole weekend - which the next OKCon could definitely 
>expand to. These were the tracks:
>
>Free Networks - Open Geodata - Open Scientific Data - Open 
>Government - Open Hardware - Free Culture - Community Currency 
>Systems
>
>World Summit, that was it. There was a group focused on India that 
>ran with the concept, and took the title a lot more seriously than 
>we did.
>I'm sorry to hear the domain has lapsed, hoping the schedule is 
>still preserved somewhere on the OKF wiki. In my view it was an 
>attempt to "spike out" the collective infrastructure of openess.
>
>Open Hardware - is there a movement? Guessing the communities around 
>Arduino (modular sensor stuff?) and RepRap (self-printing 3D 
>printers)
>are evidence that there is something in sight. Ronja (DIY optical 
>wireless networking) was an amazing project, and its creator had 
>something that looked like an Open Hardware Manifesto.
>
>I've lost track of the community currency movement a bit, seen the 
>burst of interest in Hugh Barnard's cclite project recently.
>Whatever happened to Ripple? etc.
>
>Both are much bigger problems - need capital - not the sort of thing 
>we can just hack about with minds code and words.
>
>So that, roughly, was WSFII. There was a WSFII publication as part 
>of a related series of events - Node.London - don't ask me how that 
>ended.
>
>
>
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