[okfn-discuss] Open Definition forges ahead - get involved!

Tue Dec 18 21:41:39 UTC 2012

Mike, here's the punctuation you wanted:
Are OKFN lists moving to Google‽

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Aaron Wolf
wolftune.com

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Mike Linksvayer <ml at gondwanaland.com>wrote:

> Thanks Laura and Joris! I'm not sure what "move tasks to a Google
> Group" means though. Are OKFN lists moving to Google?
>
> Mike
>
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 3:15 AM, Joris Pekel <joris.pekel at okfn.org> wrote:
> > Hi Mike,
> >
> > This is really great. As Laura mentioned, the Open Definition is so
> > important in our daily work.
> > At the OKFN, I am the volunteer coordinator and I would very much like to
> > help you to get this done. Right now we are a bit in a transition phase
> and
> > I will move the tasks to a Google Group. I will then populate it with the
> > tasks you describe above. If you have more, do let me know.
> >
> > All the best,
> >
> > Joris
> >
> >
> > 2012/12/17 Mike Linksvayer <ml at gondwanaland.com>
> >>
> >> Text below my name copied from
> >>
> >>
> http://opendefinition.org/2012/12/17/open-definition-forges-ahead-get-involved/
> >>
> >> 2013 will be an important year for Open. If you'd like to get involved
> >> at the meta level, there are a bunch of ways to do so via Open
> >> Definition work.
> >>
> >> I encourage sending this call to ought-to-be-interested people. I've
> >> copied okfn-discuss and open-government here for generality and
> >> because many of the licenses we're discussing now and are from
> >> governments.
> >>
> >> Look forward to a 2012 in review post.
> >>
> >> Mike
> >>
> >>
> >> http://opendefinition.org (OD) is one of the first projects that the
> >> the Open Knowledge Foundation created. Its purpose has been to
> >> provide, promote -- and protect -- a meaningful Open in Open Data and
> >> Open Content.
> >>
> >> It does this primarily through curating the Open Knowledge Definition
> >> (OKD) -- http://opendefinition.org/okd working with license stewards
> >> to ensure new licenses intending to be open are clearly so, and
> >> keeping lists of licenses that conform to the OKD, and those that do
> >> not -- providing any entity intending to create an open project, or
> >> mandate "open" in policy, with a clear reference as to which licenses
> >> will achieve their aims.
> >>
> >> With the growth in "open" and especially of open data initiatives in
> >> the last few years there has been an increasing amount for the project
> >> to do especially in terms of reviewing and evaluating licenses. For
> >> 2013 we see several important areas of work:
> >>
> >> * OKD v1.2 --
> >>
> https://github.com/okfn/opendefinition/blob/master/source/open-knowledge-definition.markdown
> >> -- we've seen license conditions cropping up that are certainly
> >> contrary to the spirit of the definition and implicitly
> >> non-conformant. It ought be possible for anyone with some
> >> understanding of public licenses to do a quick read of the definition
> >> and understand its meaning for a particular license without having to
> >> know all of the history of open definitions and licenses.
> >>
> >> * Review important new licenses and license versions for OKD
> >> compliance, e.g. Open Government License Canada, and version 4.0 of
> >> CC-BY and CC-BY-SA.
> >>
> >> * Moving linguistic translations into a git repository for better
> >> review and updating.
> >>
> >> * Improve explanations and graphics available on the OD site for
> >> anyone who wants to learn about open knowledge and services, and
> >> proudly announce to the world that their projects are open.
> >>
> >> * Extend our work on license APIs that provide information about open
> >> licenses at http://licenses.opendefinition.org and integrate with the
> >> main OD site; also look to cooperate with other projects eg
> >> https://spdx.org/licenses/ and https://licensedb.org/ providing Linked
> >> Open Data about licenses.
> >>
> >> * Provide regular updates about OD work to the broader OKFN network,
> >> open communities, and general public.
> >>
> >> * Develop a version git-based repository of license texts so they can
> >> be tracked over time
> >>
> >> * Growing out of discussions from
> >> http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/okfn-discuss/2006-October/000177.html
> >> and http://blog.okfn.org/2007/07/18/we-need-an-open-service-definition/
> >> the OD project developed the Open Software Service Definition (OSSD)
> >> -- http://opendefinition.org/software-service/ -- recognizing the
> >> complementarity of open content and data (knowledge) and open source
> >> web platforms and other network services that open knowledge is
> >> created, curated, and distributed on. The OSSD hasn't been touched in
> >> a long time, but software services (some of them called "the cloud")
> >> have become more important than ever, including in domains nearest to
> >> the OKFN community's most active work, such as platforms used by and
> >> for open government. Shall we update the OSSD and revitalize
> >> evangelism for open services, or declare not a core competency, and
> >> look to other groups to take leadership?
> >>
> >> If you're a legal or policy expert, software freedom advocate, linked
> >> data hacker, translator, designer, communications maven -- and want to
> >> go "meta" about openness, we could use your help! Join the od-discuss
> >> mailing list -- http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/od-discuss --
> >> and pitch into the discussion, start a new one, or lurk until you're
> >> ready.
> >>
> >> Final decisions about license conformance and definition updates are
> >> made by the http://opendefinition.org/advisory-council/ ... this is
> >> not a big time commitment, but it is a big responsibility. If you'd
> >> like to join the AC someday, join od-discuss today.
> >>
> >> We're especially keen to have AC members from every continent.
> >> Currently we only have Europe and North America, and recognize that's
> >> a big problem for the long-term impact of the Open Definition project.
> >> Especially if you're from the global South and care about the
> >> fundamentals of openness, please join od-discuss and
> >> http://opendefinition.org/contact/ !
> >>
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> >
> >
> > --
> > Joris Pekel
> > Community Coordinator
> > Open Knowledge Foundation
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> >
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