[okfn-discuss] idea: open knowledge manifesto

[Aaron Wolf]

I added some notes to the etherpad for the manifesto.

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Aaron Wolf
wolftune.com


On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Laura James <laura.james at okfn.org> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
>
> In this week's workshop on Privacy + Open Data, a few people suggested the
> idea of a manifesto to set out what open knowledge is all about.  This
> could be a short text setting out what we believe in, which folks who
> share our vision could sign to indicate their commitment.
>
>
> It's not the first time the idea has come up, so I'd love your opinions!
>
> Do you want to have a manifesto?
> What should it look like?
> Which issues should it include?
> Which issues should it not include?
> What's the best platform for collaborative drafting - an etherpad, a
> google document, a github repository, something else?
>
> I've set up an etherpad to gather ideas on these questions:
> http://pad.okfn.org/p/manifesto_ideas
>
> Look forward to hearing from you!
>
> Laura
>
>
> PS - I was so inspired by the workshop.  Sometimes it can seem like the
> privacy folks and open data folks have different views, but we ended up
> concluding many of us in both areas are driven by the same motivation - to
> use information power in the cause of human rights. On the train home, I
> was feeling super excited about this, so I quickly wrote up what was in my
> mind after the workshop here
> <https://docs.google.com/a/okfn.org/document/d/1dxwEV3Qt9S3sbOP7XSnefZ6koOcN7Xj3LGfvpkTuWlQ/edit>.
> If you were at the workshop, thanks for all your contributions - it was a
> great two days! Especial thanks to Mark Lizar and others in the 'power'
> session before lunch yesterday for inspiration and fervour :)
>
>
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