[okfn-discuss] Minutes of July Open Knowledge Foundation board meeting

[Laura James]

The evaluation planning is at an early stage. In this case we expect to
have some input into the design of the evaluation process primarily at
board level (where there is experience of this sort of process) with some
involvement from Rufus and I.

Laura


On 13 September 2013 14:17, Gene Shackman <eval_gene at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> Got it. The funders want to know if their money is "well spent". Can i ask
> what indicators they want to use? Do you (okfn) have input into the
> evaluation design, questions, measures? Sorry i'm coming late into this.
>
> Thanks
>
> Gene
> Evaluation resources
> Http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 11:36 PM PDT Laura James wrote:
>
> >Hi Gene,
> >
> >Some of our current funders (grant making foundations) wish to undertake a
> >significant piece of due diligence on the Open Knowledge Foundation. This
> >will, if it goes well, reassure them that further and potentially much
> >larger grants could be given to us.  This due diligence will take the form
> >of an independent evaluation organised by the funder(s).
> >
> >Hope that helps,
> >
> >Laura
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >On 13 September 2013 01:29, Gene Shackman <eval_gene at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >> What's this evaluation proposal about? Evaluating what?
> >>
> >> Gene
> >>
> >>
> >> Gene Shackman, Ph.D.
> >> The Global Social Change Research Project
> >> http://gsociology.icaap.org
> >> Free Resources for Methods in Evaluation and Social Research
> >> http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods
> >> ----------
> >> Applied Sociologist
> >> ----------
> >>
> >>   ------------------------------
> >>  *From:* Laura James <laura.james at okfn.org>
> >> *To:* Open Knowledge Foundation discussion list <
> >> okfn-discuss at lists.okfn.org>
> >> *Sent:* Thursday, September 12, 2013 2:04 PM
> >> *Subject:* [okfn-discuss] Minutes of July Open Knowledge Foundation
> board
> >> meeting
> >>
> >> The minutes of the July 2013 board meeting are now posted online:
> >> http://okfn.org/governance/meetings/2013-07-09/
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >>
> >> Laura
> >>
> >> --
> >> *
>
>
>


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