[open-development] Open Development Fellowship

Thu Oct 3 11:38:05 UTC 2013

Dear Colleagues,

As many of you are already aware, the Open Development group began drafting
a proposal to develop an Open Development Fellowship Scheme, based loosely
on the Open Science Panton Fellows, early this year.

At OKcon, I had the opportunity to meet with people interested in taking
this idea forward. You can find the original proposal and the meeting recap
here<https://docs.google.com/a/okfn.org/document/d/1fVewD7Ui6fnULg1e3r2Y6m5n3yjQH3oBbOiPKZ6IwBE/edit#heading=h.zdg3c9gyd2an>
.

New Developments (please provide feedback!)

   - *Local Group Project Administration: *While the Open Knowledge
   Foundation has been suggested as a suitable host organisation of the house
   for the fellowship scheme, ultimately we would like to see the project to
   be managed by one of our local groups. The Brazil local initiative is
   likely to be the best fit. What do others think about the project
   administration being carried by a local group? Would the Brazil local group
   be a suitable choice?
   - *Research Questions:* As Open Development is a emerging field of
   study, we discussed developing a few broad research questions to help
   define the scope of the fellowship. Is this a good idea? Would people be
   interested in participating in developing these questions.
   - *Themes:* I also thought that we could organise the fellowship around
   the themes that were developed by the group in Geneva. Would it make
   sense to organise the fellowship around one, or two, or all of these
   themes?
   - *Open Development OKcon hosted by local group.* Going forward, the
   OKcon conference model is one that we would like to see taken up and used
   by our local groups. The original proposal mentioned organising an event in
   the "south",where, presumably, the fellows could present their work as well
   as connect with the larger open development research community. Would an
   OKcon like event organised by an OKF local group be an a good option for
   such an event?

Next Steps:

   - *Gauging Interest:* We were hoping to reach out to bursary recipients
   from OKfest 2012 to begin to gauge interest and get feedback from potential
   fellows. How else would you suggest gauging interest?
   - *Proposal *- In order to draft the proposal we need to determine how
   we are going to select the fellows, how we are going to recruit the
   fellows, where the fellows should come from (more information in
document<https://docs.google.com/a/okfn.org/document/d/1fVewD7Ui6fnULg1e3r2Y6m5n3yjQH3oBbOiPKZ6IwBE/edit#>).
   The input of the group on these points is warming welcomed!

Please get in touch if you are interested in helping to take this
fellowship scheme proposal forward and I look forward to all of your
comments!

All the best,
Katelyn

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Katelyn Rogers

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