[okfn-labs] Making it easier for people to figure out what's going on in OKFN

Tue Feb 4 15:39:05 UTC 2014

On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Thomas Levine <_ at thomaslevine.com> wrote:

> I had been complaining about how hard it is to figure
> out what is going on in OKFN. Then Rufus explained to
> me that OKFN is sort of loosely conected, with people
> working on whatever they feel like. This is in contrast
> to a company where projects are assigned to people and
> people theoretically finish them. I'd already sort of
> realized this, but the means for finding out about
> projects made a bit more sense to me once he told me.

 Are you talking about OKFN Labs or OKFN in general?

There are (I think) three different things here: OKF, OKFN, and OKFN Labs.
 For quite a while, I didn't realize that OKFN was different from OKF.  I
just assumed it was a variant abbreviation for the same Open Knowledge
FoundatioN.  This is further confused by the fact that the OKF's Twitter
handle is @OKFN and web site is okfn.org.  With the same four letters
meaning two different things, is it any wonder people are confused?

Perhaps a clearly different acronym or name is in order?  OKFx anyone?

I've assumed that OKFN Labs is yet another step removed from OKFN, but
perhaps I've got that wrong.

Tom
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