[okfn-discuss] The Guardian government data debate on Apr 25 - with ao. OKF's Rufus Pollock

[Rufus Pollock]

On 3 April 2013 10:55, Mark Wainwright <mark.wainwright at okfn.org> wrote:

> >> Seriously, 100% men on a panel of 5 is VERY bad. Not really very open.
>
> > Not sure I understand your use of the word open here :S
>
> 'Open' means, among other things, with 'No Discrimination Against
> Persons or Groups' - according to the Open Definition [1].
>

Just to be clear that's about access (licensing) to data / knowledge not
about the composition of panels :-) (or about governance processes)

I think it was this distinction between open "process" and open knowledge
that David was alluding to.

I should emphasize that the two need not be correlated at all, in fact,
many open knowledge projects have dictatorial or oligarchic governance
models (think of the committer group for F/OSS projects or Linus Torvalds
...)

Anyway this was an aside from the main thread.

Rufus


> If the panel of 5 men is not a 1-in-32 freak occurrence, it appears
> that such panels are not very 'open' to women - since I do not think
> that women are constitutionally less interested in open data or less
> competent to take part in panels.

[1] http://opendefinition.org/okd/
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