Participants

• Herb Lainchbury
• Mike Linksvayer
• Timothy Volmer

Agenda

• state of OD 2.1
• IMF license for data reuse
• recommendations to Surrey
• licenses waiting for assessment
• license approval process and communications check-in
• open data and APIs

Summary

• state of OD 2.1
  • need to review the proposed changes on github
  • Herb will again outline the changes and communicate these to the list; discussion settling down
  • need to get feedback from okfn-discuss and okfn-local
  • possibly get official @okfn twitter, etc. to tweet that this is happening to solicit any comments/feedback
  • https://github.com/okfn/opendefinition/blob/master/source/open-definition-2.1-dev.markdown
• IMF license for data reuse
  • already in place
  • is this solely a license or combo license/tos
  • do we need to assess licenses where there’s little chance to change and where we do not know the creator of the license
  • IMF is high profile
  • smaller orgs tend to look to larger orgs for leadership
  • let’s reach out to them?
  • ask on the list if anyone has a contact we can reach out to (Herb)
• recommendations to Surrey
  • sent out last Friday
  • Herb to follow up
  • ideally Canadian federal govt will entertain a having a reusable license that sub-nationals can use as is done in the UK
• licenses waiting for assessment
  • create a queue of licenses on github?
  • possibly submit as issue to track
  • but volume is low and handling it ok on email list too
  • gpl v3 review, especially since CC BY-SA 4.0 one way compatibility process with gpl upcoming
  • license level National
  • what sorts of things should our recommended list
• license approval process and communications check-in
  • okfn-discuss, okfn-local
  • possibly social media heads up from @okfn
  • also there’s the “updates” section of OD website; few posts there but could revive
• open data and APIs
  • OD could try to keep up with this issue
  • open software services definition - https://opendefinition.org/ossd/
  • could have general discussion of challenges/problems; focus on government use case
  • Herb will follow-up after OD 2.1 is done