On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Joseph Seddon<[email protected]> wrote: >> It'd be interesting to see a list of formal organizations (not just >> informal groupings like you've listed above) that are active in the UK >> and which might OKFN might formally reach out to to see if there is >> interest in working together. OSI has considered (among other things) >> moving in this direction, with open source software foundations like >> Apache, GNOME, etc., becoming 'member organizations' of OSI and each >> having some sort of formal representation in planning, organization, >> etc. Perhaps OKFN could put together a similar 'advisory council' of >> open-knowledge-related groups in the UK (or more broadly). > > The two UK based organisations which spring to mind are a Wikimedia UK (a > non profit company limited by guarentee, currently seeking charity status) > where I am a director, and the second group is iCommons which is a fork from > Creative Commons, which is UK charity. There is also the Open Rights Group. > I have in passing conversation suggested an Open Knowledge Council for the > UK, with people from iCommons and OKFN and the reception seems to have been > good. Prehaps taking this forward and making this an active aim would be a > good idea and prehaps should start approaching other orgs.
As a non-brit it isn't really for me to say, of course, but it sounds very useful to me. And if nothing else the conference would be a blast ;) Luis _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
