[okfn-discuss] Open Knowledge Foundation Strategy slides

Diane Mercier diane.mercier at gmail.com
Sat Jul 20 22:05:53 UTC 2013


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Le 2013-07-20 16:51, Tim McNamara a écrit :
> One of the trends I've noticed is that OKFN is moving away from open 
> source software for much of its activities. These slides are hosted on 
> Google Drive, for example. Code is hosted in GitHub. To me, this trend 
> goes against the first slide, which is "Open as natural, open as good".
>
> On 21 July 2013 03:32, Gene Shackman <eval_gene at yahoo.com 
> <mailto:eval_gene at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
>     Thanks for posting the slides
>     http://okfn.org/about/strategy/
>
>     Couple of suggestions
>
>     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?
>
>     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.
>
>     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.
>
>     Gene
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