This is regarding collaborations with private firms and organizations. Datameet often works with various organizations both for profit as well as not for profit, including government departments. While we do share data internally/publicly depending on the license constraints and the work we are involved with, it happens from a personal trust point of the member leading it rather than a signed MoU at organization level. Generally most of the organizations we work with are reputed enough and are part of the data community too.
But with the explosion of the data as an asset, we often get contacted by new private players whom we don't know or unsure to work with from a community perspective. Sometimes these players offer money as incentive, or do not really understand the open source licenses to attribute us. Some might be saying they have an MoU with us even though we officially don't have a MoU with any organization as far as I know. I know we can't legally sue them for advertising us freely. My question is, since we are a trust now. Should we at-least have a framework to partner with other organizations and non-binding MoU (as we don't deal with money) facilitating the process? This is just to minimize all the unnecessary calls and meetings we go through which doesn't result in anything fruitful with all new players. We could put up a page with whom we have worked in the past, whom we are working with now, with the MoU's in place on what we are working with the said organization. Regards, Srinivas Kodali www.lostprogrammer.com On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 5:46 PM, Craig Dsouza <craigds...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is a great idea Nisha, > Just some thoughts. > We should do a visioning exercise, i.e. when can we say public data in > India is truly open and how do we imagine Datameet can contribute to this > goal? > Some reflections from you guys on Datameet's journey so far would be > useful here. > > Also a lot of Datameet's work/initiatives have been spontaneous and member > driven, which is great but there's also a lot of potential to be explored > in organizing our work better. > Data shared here is useful especially for researchers, and those involved > in citizen facing campaigns. > Perhaps we can think about how to make their work more effective, through > capacity building, maybe regular workshops? > So that these data science tools/skills don't stay limited to this > community but end up in the hands of people directly working in public > policy/development. > > > On Monday, September 12, 2016 at 1:10:01 PM UTC+5:30, Nisha Thompson wrote: >> >> Hey All, >> >> It has been 5 years and we are now at over 1500 members and we thought it >> would be a good time to do an Ask Us Anything Hangout with DataMeet Central. >> >> It will be September 20th, at 6:30pm. >> >> We will be doing a broadcast Google Hangout will send the link out half >> hour before. >> >> Bring your thoughts and questions about DataMeet, data in India, things >> we have done, things we should do, etc. >> >> It would be helpful to have some questions beforehand so feel free to use >> this thread to ask, if not you can ask during the hangout! >> >> Hope to see you then! >> >> Nisha >> >> -- >> Nisha Thompson >> DataMeet.org >> ni...@datameet.org >> skype: nishaqt >> mobile: 962-061-2245 >> >> >> -- > Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more > about us by visiting http://datameet.org > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "datameet" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
