[okfn-discuss] History of the Open Knowledge Foundation

Mon Dec 2 12:52:06 UTC 2013

Does anyone collect citations to mentions of the OKF by third parties?

What Rufus shared is great, but for Wikipedia and everything Wikipedia
influences, the only information which can be cited are the third-party
media coverage by entities other than the subject of the article.

What this means is that an organization's history and brand are defined
online by what others say about it, and not by what it says about itself.
This is Wikipedia's major check on the neutrality of its content.

I added a column to the gdocs spreadsheet to include third-party media
coverage to individual events, but before I searched myself, I thought that
I would ask if there was any collection anywhere of unsorted media mentions.
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https://docs.google.com/a/okfn.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqR8dXc6Ji4JdDJoRG02VndrNHhKbmRDRnpMMkxWV2c#gid=0
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yours,

On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 5:03 AM, Theodora Middleton <
theodora.middleton at okfn.org> wrote:

> Possibly also interesting (if you have spare reading time) are the annual
> reports (not very detailed but give a general overview of our activities
> each year): http://okfn.org/governance/reports/
>
> t
>
>
> On 2 December 2013 08:57, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I've been working with a few folks to put together a general Open
>> Knowledge Foundation TimeMap here:
>>
>> http://timemapper.okfnlabs.org/okfn/open-knowledge-foundation-history
>> Trello card on Ideas:
>> https://trello.com/c/87jcRNg3/57-open-knowledge-foundation-history-timemap
>>
>> Here is the source gdocs spreadsheeet<https://docs.google.com/a/okfn.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqR8dXc6Ji4JdDJoRG02VndrNHhKbmRDRnpMMkxWV2c#gid=0> -
>> be delighted to see people jump in with contributions - as long as you're
>> happy with some editorial :-) (one immediate thing is to go through early
>> blog entries!).
>>
>> There is also work led by Charalampos to put together a *Local Groups
>> timemap* (more granular and detailed):
>>
>> TimeMap: http://timemapper.okfnlabs.org/okfn/local-groups-activities
>> Trello card on Ideas:
>> https://trello.com/c/VGQmB1E6/52-create-a-timeline-and-timemap-with-major-okf-local-activities
>>
>> @Everton: you raise more general points especially re 10y anniversary but
>> I thought these were some good resources to get started with!
>>
>> Rufus
>>
>>
>> On 1 December 2013 05:10, Everton Zanella Alvarenga <
>> everton.alvarenga at okfn.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> is there any place I can find the history of the Open Knowledge
>>> Foundation? I just know Rufus was one of the co-founders (who were the
>>> others?) and what is written here
>>>
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Knowledge_Foundation
>>>
>>> Since next year the OKF will be 10 years old, it would be great to have
>>> such kind of information for we understand the roots of our expanding
>>> network and celebrate it.
>>>
>>> Maybe Rufus and Jonathan (others?), copied here, could tell us about it?
>>>
>>> It'd be great to know who started to write the open definition and why,
>>> the origin of CKAN, some initial ideas that were dropped out in the
>>> last 10 years, the reason someone thought it was necessary to create an
>>> organization that promotes open knowledge in its all forms and her or his
>>> main motivations etc.. There are a lot of other things I am sure several
>>> people would like to know. :)
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom)
>>> OKF Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre
>>> http://br.okfn.org
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>>
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