[okfn-discuss] Open Knowledge Foundation Strategy slides

Sat Jul 20 16:23:17 UTC 2013

The slides are great, and Gene's suggestions are even better. I would definitely support taking "fanatic" out of officially sanctioned merchandise. Yes, "advocacy" is a better term than "talking." And, finally, to the third of couple of Gene's suggestions, OKF works *with* and builds *on* the work of many other organizations with similar values; this I believe. Highlighting that cooperative quality of OKF would seem like a better strategy than claiming we are unique. (Yes, I am as much a part of OKF as I am of some other organization.)

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Puneet Kishor
proud member, practitioner and advocate of OKF

On Jul 20, 2013, at 8:32 AM, Gene Shackman <eval_gene at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Thanks for posting the slides
> http://okfn.org/about/strategy/
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> Couple of suggestions
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> 1. slide 9. I don't know that you need to say "not fanatic". Just "pragmatic" is good enough. Are you saying someone else -is- fanatic?
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> 2. slides 7 and 9. You do define 'talking' as advocacy on slide 7, but when I got to slide 9, I'm sorry to say I didn't really remember seeing the previous definition, so all I saw on slide 9 was "talking", which doesn't sound very useful. Can you change that to "advocacy and creating"? That's immediately understandable, and looks like you are -doing- something.
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> 3. Slide 10. Now that I've been on this list a little while, I see there are many organizations about 'open'. Slide 10 seems kind of like an advertisement, why okf is better than other organizations. No real harm in it, but just seems kind of marketing.
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> Gene
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