[open-sustainability] Open Sustainability at OKCon

Wed Oct 16 14:48:04 UTC 2013

Dear Katelyn,

I am currently a member of both the Open Sustainability and Open
Development Working Groups, and would be happy to function as a go between
the two as suited.

Best,

Quinn Ferguson

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From: open-sustainability-bounces at lists.okfn.org
[mailto:open-sustainability-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Katelyn
Rogers
Sent: Montag, 14. Oktober 2013 11:42
To: open-sustainability
Subject: Re: [open-sustainability] Open Sustainability at OKCon

Hi everyone! 

I am sorry I missed this meeting but am happy to see that there is obvious
interest in growing this Working Group. For those of you I have not met
yet, I am the Working Groups Community Manager at the Open Knowledge
Foundation. Here are my comments/ideas, hope this is useful (and not over
repetitive)

*	Synergies with other Working Groups: I think this is an excellent
idea and something that I am very keen to make happen more. One easy way
to identify some of these synergies is to have people active in two or
more groups volunteers as the go between for the groups, publishing
updates and identifying opportunities for collaboration. 
*	Campaigns: I am very pleased to hear that the group is interested
in being active in the FollowTheMoney and CO2 campaigns that we have going
on, I am happy to help make this happen.  
*	Central Support: I am more than happy to provide more central
support for Open Sustainability activities/campaigns/projects and am happy
to discuss with anyone about more sophisticated means of communication. 

Next Steps: 

*	Local Strands: As there are a number of local strands of this
working group developing, it would be great to represent that on the
website (see open science local
<http://science.okfn.org/community/local-groups/> ), I think this would
help people see where they can get involved and better demonstrate the
different Open Sustainability activities taking place across the network
*	Blog: It is always nice to have people blogging! Are there people
interested in helping both blog about Open Sustainability and solicit
blogs about Open Sustainability from others to post on the website? 
*	Governance: A number of the working groups have set up governance
structures (see open GLAM <http://openglam.org/working-group/> ) that
allows more people to take an active role in the group. Are there people
interested in setting something like this up (this is not the only option
as well)?

I apologise for this lengthy message. I am excited to see enthusiasm to
further develop Open Sustainability. Let me know how I can help!

All the best,

Katelyn  

On 10 October 2013 18:47, Jack Townsend <jack at jacktownsend.net> wrote:

Hi everyone

Just got a little time to follow up from OKCon. Those who were there
please chip in.

Had a quick meeting on the Open Sustainability WG where we discussed:

*	Potential synergies with other groups: Transport, Science,
Development, Cities.
*	Working with the OKFN Follow the Money campaign with, focussing on
e.g. fossil fuel company influence (a la Open Oil/  Publishwhatyoupay.org)

*	The OKFN OpenCO2 campaign, which hasn't made a lot of noise yet.
*	What we could learn from the success of the Open Development WG -
particularly the sponsorship from the World Bank which has enabled them to
gain a full-time support from the central office..
*	James Smith highlighted OpenAMEE <https://github.com/OpenAMEE> , a
powerful carbon emissions calculation tool that has been open-sourced
*	Quinn Ferguson wondered if there are more advanced ways of
interacting than email lists!

My talk on the main stage on Open Sustainability is here
<http://new.livestream.com/accounts/5389255/okcon> .

And our Globe-Town.org <http://globe-town.org/>  sustainability app came
second in the Linked Up
<http://blog.okfn.org/2013/09/17/linkedup-open-education-veni-competition-
the-winners/>  open data in education competition, woot!  

Please keep tweeting @OpenSusty with any good open sustainability stories
you see.

All the best

Jack

Web, Open Data & Sustainability University of Southampton

@JackTownsend_ <https://twitter.com/JackTownsend_>   jack at jacktownsend.net

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