On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Luis Villa<[email protected]> wrote: > If Apache is the model maybe we should spend some time thinking about > what OKFN brings to the table for new projects- why would I want to > make my project part of OKFN?
This is a really very useful question! :-) [snip] > What are OKFN's equivalents? How should OKFN strengthen/modify/etc. > those equivalents over the next five years? Further down the line I would hope that we could offer: * Hosting/storage (via KnowledgeForge + eventually Open Data Grid + mailing lists) * Tools (blogs, wikis, versioned storage, trac, ... again via KnowledgeForge) * Legal/licensing support (Open Definition, Open Data Commons, ...) * Expertise (mainly via community, mailing lists, working groups, events, etc.) * Publicity (blog, events, etc.) * Legal structure? (E.g. via One Click Orgs, which we support - http://www.oneclickor.gs/) * Seed funding (either direct project funding or via competitions, etc. - maybe one day!) I guess this could be conceived of as OKF's function as 'incubator' or 'nurturer' (growing/supporting projects). Another major function that I think is important is 'clearing house' to try to strengthen communication/ties between various different communities that support open knowledge in its various forms (open government/PSI, civic hacker, free culture, CC, F/OSS, open access, open data, open science, public domain, OER, digital scholarship, data visualisation, data management, digital resources, ...). Hence events, working groups and so on. -- Jonathan Gray Community Coordinator The Open Knowledge Foundation http://www.okfn.org _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
