[okfn-help] Fwd: License of the OKFN newsletter

Sat Mar 2 13:50:37 UTC 2013

I just realised this e-mail bellow didn't achieve the list. Just
created a ticket http://trac.okfn.org/ticket/1405

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From: Everton Zanella Alvarenga <everton.alvarenga at okfn.org>
Date: 2013/2/5
Subject: License of the OKFN newsletter
To: Help <okfn-help at lists.okfn.org>

Hi, I just received it.

I think we should change the footnote to an open license.

http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=a3f1f88a62b23f51641693977&id=aa7760e1e3&e=b8ac17c531

Good work, by the way.

Tom

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From: Open Knowledge Foundation <blog at okfn.org>
Date: 2013/2/5
Subject: The Open Knowledge Foundation Newsletter
To: Everton <everton.alvarenga at okfn.org>

Newsletter

February 2013
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Open Knowledge Foundation

Hi Everton

We’re fresh back from our biannual summit, which brought together members
from Open Knowledge Foundation Local Groups and Working Groups around the
world. It was truly inspiring to hear about the vision and dedication of
people in so many disparate geographical and thematic corners, all working
towards a shared vision of future in which open knowledge empowers people
everywhere to build to worlds they want to see. We’ve been working on making
it easier for you to get involved - Find out below how you help us cultivate
the digital commons.

We can only ever report on a fraction of what's going on across the network
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and individual supporters. Please visit okfn.org/support to find out more
about becoming an Open Knowledge Foundation supporter.

Help Us Cultivate The Digital Commons

At the Open Knowledge Foundation we work to cultivate a global commons of
digital material that everyone is free to use and enjoy.

This digital commons includes everything from open data about carbon
emissions or spending from governments around the world; to open access
research in the sciences, the humanities, and many other disciplines; to
public domain works from galleries, libraries, archives and museums.

In the last few months we’ve been looking at how we can better support local
and domain specific affinity groups around the world. If you share our
vision and want to work with us to realise it, then you can now:

Join or start a Local Group: okfn.org/local
Join or start a Local Meetup: www.meetup.com/OpenKnowledgeFoundation
Apply to become a Local Ambassador: okfn.org/local/apply
Join or suggest a Working Group: okfn.org/wg
Join the new Taskforce: okfn.org/taskforce

We want to see a stronger and more connected network to support the digital
commons - find out how we can help each other more in this blog post.

Open Economics

One Working Group which has been going from strength-to-strength is Open
Economics. The first International Open Economics Workshop took place on the
17th and 18th December at Emmanuel College in Cambridge. Forty academic
economists, data publishers and funders of economics research, researchers
and practitioners came together to build an understanding around the value
of open data and open tools for the Economics profession and the obstacles
to opening up information, as well as the role of greater openness of the
academy. You can find out exactly what went on here.

A brilliant example of what a more open approach to economics might look
like was offered by the new open database of sovereign credit risk. Its
makers need you to join in with enhancing the quality of openly published
financial datasets, with the ultimate aim of developing a credible,
transparent and collaborative alternative to the credit ratings status quo.
The power wielded by credit rating agencies has been much criticised
throughout the economic crisis - let’s start to do something about it.

(Some of) our News

After Hans Rosling’s landmark talk at OKFest 2012, it was fascinating to
hear more from him about his call for opening up carbon emissions data.
We’re really looking forward to seeing some action in this sphere - join our
new Open Sustainability Working Group if you’d like to get involved.

There’s been a tonne of activity in the OpenGLAM world. From the USA, we got
the good news that the Digital Library of America is recommending an open
CC0 license. This was sadly followed by that the Bibliotechque nationale
Francaise (BnF) is making moves to privatise sections of the public domain.
We strongly condemn this course of action, and will be working with our
Communia partners to persuade them against it.

We are super proud to announce that the new version of the U.S government’s
data.gov portal will be moving over to our open source CKAN software. We
think there are now probably around 100 CKAN powered sites - but since
anyone anywhere can launch their own version, we don’t really know! It’s
fantastic to see our product becoming an international standard for open
data management.

Our Belgian group have been busy bees: find out more about their work on
Open Transport and Apps4Europe here.

How open are your country’s finances? Explore the Open Budget Survey 2012
with our interactive tool.

What does the history of Open look like? We want your timeline submissions
for our Open Book project.

And whether you made it to Helsinki or not, check out the OKFest 2012 after
package, with tonnes of stuff to keep you talking till we see you for this
year’s event!

Ideas and Musings

Here’s a little taster of what we’ve been thinking about on the blog. Do get
in touch if you have something to say!

Simon Chignard gave us “Four Ideas for defending the Open Data Commons”, an
issue whose importance grows as fast as the profile of openness.

Joris Pekel explored some of the consequences, risks and side-effects of
Non-Commercial (NC) licenses.

And John Gollan from the School of the Environment, University of
Technology, Sydney explained why he believes that "Citizen science *can*
produce reliable data", despite its occasional detractors.

Dates for your Diary

And lastly, Here’s a couple of dates for your diaries. Hope to see you soon!

The Open Research Data Handbook Sprint, 1th-16th February, London.

The ePSI conference and workshops, 21st-23rd February, Warsaw.

Open Data Day 23rd February, everywhere!

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Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom)
OKFN Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre
http://br.okfn.org

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Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom)
OKFN Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre
http://br.okfn.org