On 14/07/09 14:08, Rufus Pollock wrote: > > * What do you think the Open Knowledge Foundation is?
It's an advocacy organization for the liberty of individuals to access and exploit information, data and facts of historical, practical or academic importance and materials that support these resources. This advocacy can be practical and material (KnowledgeForge) or media based and philosophical (position statements, comments on debates, e.g. on database copyright or OSM's licence). I think OKF's unique selling potential is the data sets that it provides and creates tools for and helps to keep free. That's what differentiates it from Science Commons or the open access movement. I've also been impressed by OKF's measured, minimal but persuasive intervention in legal and philosophical issues such as OpenStreetMap's licencing troubles. OKF really is an authority on these issues. > * What do you think it should be doing? More of the same, but with a clear statement of *why* it is doing it and, because people always complain about this for any project, an even more transparent organizational structure. OKF's balance of ideological and practical projects is great, on par with the FSF or Wikimedia. I think this is precisely what OKF should be doing. Possibly OKF can learn from FlossManuals' "sprints" and from CC & Science Commons's corporate partnerships for tools and impleemntation of protocols, but these would be ways of extending current successes rather than any kind of replacement. > * What impact should it be having? The practical impact OKF has had is great, it can be extended, and it needs more recognition. People should be using OKF's tools and arguments when dealing with datasets and open access materials and they should *know* that they are doing so. - Rob.
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