[okfn-discuss] Joining OKF - Heather Leson

Tue Sep 24 13:54:46 UTC 2013

Hello Heather,

I know you are getting settled in but I would like to have a chat with you
sometime. I also am a community organizer and my own job would be easier if
OKF supported its own community in a way relevant to me. In short - I would
like for an OKF history to be compiled and I would like to work with others
to integrated that into Wikipedia.

Right now OKF has a sub-par Wikipedia article. I often have to explain
concepts related to "open knowledge" to various people and I think that the
place of the OKF should be in acting as stewards of cultural standards in
the open movement. When I am explaining concepts like "open science" and
"open access", I would like to be able to cite an authoritative
organization which can be a proponent of the philosophy on which demands
for openness can be made. OKF should be that authoritative organization,
but right now if someone searches online for information about OKF it is my
opinion that a thoughtful person would not find a history and explanation
of the organization's scope that would make them sure that OKF was that
authority. I say this because I am not aware of any organization which is
positioned for or which desires to even have that authority, and even if
OKF does not want the authority I feel that it should take the
responsibility anyway.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Knowledge_Foundation>

I do not know the entire media strategy for getting recognition, but
considering OKF's digital base and community outreach strategy, promoting
the development of its Wikipedia article would not be an unreasonable
compliment to whatever else is done because whatever the Wikipedia article
says other journalists will repeat and people who do genera search engine
queries about the organization are likely to find the Wikipedia article as
well.

No one should promote bias into a Wikipedia article and organizations
should not write about themselves, but in the long term and with
maintenance, I would like for there to be increased communication between
the OKF community and the Wikipedia community such that major projects of
the OKF are noted on Wikipedia and general information about broad issues
which flows through the OKF community also finds its way in general
interest Wikipedia articles, which again for example could be the articles
on "open access" and "open science".

Congratulations on your position as community manager. As a member of your
community a look forward to being managed by you.

yours,

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Nurunnaby Chowdhury <nh at nhasive.com> wrote:

> Congrtz & Welcome Heather..
>
>
>
> Nurunnaby Chowdhury
> Ambassador, OKFN Bangladesh
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Billy Meinke <
> billy.meinke at creativecommons.org> wrote:
>
>> Welcome, Heather.  I make a point of dropping a line to most of the OKF
>> Community Managers as the org has been building.  I'm Billy<http://creativecommons.org/staff#billymeinke>,
>> and I work on Education at Creative Commons.  Nice to meet you, hope to run
>> into you at some point!
>>
>> Billy
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 6:27 AM, Heather Leson <heather.leson at okfn.org>wrote:
>>
>>> HI everyone,
>>>
>>> OKCON was a blast and an awesome way to begin my journey as an
>>> OKF-Staffer. Fortunately, I met a number of you in person. For those I did
>>> not meet, we'll just have to connect online and in person.
>>>
>>> By way of introduction, I've joined the Network Team as a Community
>>> Manager.
>>>
>>> In the past years, I've volunteered on building community in Toronto's
>>> arts and tech scene (Scream in High Park, Podcamp, Toronto Girl Geek
>>> Dinners) as well as Mozilla, RHOK, CrisisCommons, Crisismappers, Ushahidi
>>> and the Standby Task Force. My previous role was the Director of
>>> Community at Ushahidi<http://blog.ushahidi.com/2013/09/05/thank-you-this-community-rocks/>.
>>> I'm passionate about global storytelling, citizen voices, excellent
>>> software, collaboration, localization and open everything. My background is
>>> in libraries and the OSI stack (Network, Application). I believe we can
>>> create a better world if we all lend a digital hand. This means that our
>>> job is to build open with packets (small and large asks) helping people
>>> make meaningful contributions.
>>>
>>> I can't wait to meet you, share and learn how to build with you at OKF.
>>>
>>>
>>> *How to Reach me:*
>>> Email : heather.leson at okfn.org
>>> Twitter <https://twitter.com/heatherleson>
>>> Personal blog <http://textontechs.com/>
>>> IRC  #OKF (heatherleson) | Skype heatherleson
>>>
>>>
>>> Onward,
>>>
>>> Heather
>>>
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