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

Tue Feb 4 16:48:14 UTC 2014

Wait, what is the difference between OKF and OKFN? I still think it's just
OKFn (i.e. Open Knowledge Foundatio<n>), as you previously thought. A quick
search doesn't turn up anything sensible, even when specifying "OKF" and
"OKFN" in quotes - they don't really seem to exist on the same web page
except by accident.

Greetings,
Emanuil

On 4 February 2014 15:39, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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