[OpenSpending] Supporting growth of the OS project and community - a proposal

Fri Jun 28 15:36:59 UTC 2013

Hi All,

Over the last few years OpenSpending has seen *rapid growth in terms of
technology, datasets, and community*. As with many projects when they
achieve a certain threshold of success and activity, the time has come to
bring a bit more *structure* to the growth of the community and development
of the project in order to *empower more explicitly* and more formally the
growing array of *stakeholders in the project*.

OpenSpending has always a been a *community project*. This proposal seeks
to reflect this more formally in the *governance* and *organization*. The
main proposed action is to establish a *steering group* to oversee the
project and represent the growing number of stakeholders. In addition,
there is a plan to establish specific “teams” who are looking after
particular areas, in particular, a “technical (code) team” and a “data
team”.

We emphasize that the project will continue to have a home, legally and
infrastructurally, at the Open Knowledge Foundation and the Foundation will
continue to be strongly committed to the project.

This information plus further details is in this public and commentable
google doc<https://docs.google.com/a/okfn.org/document/d/12FVxSQQBovNGnGdtujecFoRs54LBqgp4zDgH0tdeQdk/edit#>-
please add comments there or share your feedback here on list.

Best,
Anders

-- 
*

Anders Pedersen

Community Coordinator  |  skype: anpehej  |  @anpe <https://twitter.com/>

The Open Knowledge Foundation <http://okfn.org/>

Empowering through Open Knowledge

http://okfn.org/  |  @okfn <http://twitter.com/OKFN>  |  OKF on
Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/OKFNetwork> |
Blog <http://blog.okfn.org/>  |  Newsletter<http://okfn.org/about/newsletter>

*

OpenSpending | http://openspending.org |
@openspending<http://twitter.com/openspending>

School of Data | http://schoolofdata.org |
@schoolofdata<http://twitter.com/schoolofdata>

*

**

*
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/openspending/attachments/20130628/17868f2c/attachment.html>