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Defining Open in Open Data, Open Content and Open Knowledge

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Notes from Open Definition Call December 2015

29 April 2016 Participants Herb Lainchbury Mike Linksvayer Luis Villa Aaron Wolf Rufus Pollock Agenda Authentication and Openness (and Open APIs) this is https://opendefinition.org/ossd/index.html related license review process logistics KOGL Scottish Parliament Open License v2.0 USA plan for 2016 Summary Authentication and Openness... Read More

Notes from Open Definition Call October 2015

04 December 2015 Participants Herb Lainchbury Mike Linksvayer Agenda OD 2.1 communication plan approval process topic note from Aaron: lack of clarity around the primary purpose of release-candidate phase: broader, public announcements prior to finalizing license repository licenses awaiting approval Summary Communications Plan... Read More

Notes from Open Definition Call August 2015

05 October 2015 Participants Herb Lainchbury Rufus Pollock Aaron Wolf Mike Linksvayer Agenda OD 2.1 final draft AOB Open Definition Badges Other Issues? Summary Public domain: maybe some small clarification in the preamble General Discussions of principle vs pragmatic application. e.g. raw source... Read More

Notes from Open Definition Call June 2015

09 August 2015 Participants Herb Lainchbury Mike Linksvayer Aaron Wolf Agenda state of OD 2.1 OD Web Site Structure OD Summary Statements Proposal to move OD discussion to forum Licenses waiting for approval Other Issues? Summary state of OD 2.1 are we there... Read More

Notes from Open Definition Call February 2015

26 February 2015 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... Read More

Notes from Open Definition Call December 2014

27 January 2015 Participants Herb Lainchbury Aaron Wolf Peter Murray-Rust Andreas Langegger Agenda licenses waiting for assessment ML notes community notice added to process, see: https://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/od-discuss/2014-December/001179.html non-conforming licenses and what to do about them deciding what licenses ought to go through the conformance... Read More

Notes from Open Definition Call August 2014

02 October 2014 Participants Herb Lainchbury Andrew Stott Mike Linksvayer Tim Vollmer Rufus Pollock Agenda discuss v2.0 communication plan sharing with other lists for feedback? approval process and license category proposed update (ideally live with 2.0 as it addresses best practices we decided... Read More

Notes from Open Definition Call June 2014

10 August 2014 Participants Herb Lainchbury Mike Linksvayer Timothy Vollmer Andrew Katz Rufus Pollock Luis Villa Agenda Status of action items from previous meeting OD 2.0 progress report and discussion Approval process and license category proposed update, see https://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/od-discuss/2014-April/000841.html Summary is there a... Read More

Notes from Open Definition Call April 2014

06 June 2014 Participants Mike Linksvayer Herb Lainchbury Chiaki Ishikawa Agenda status of action items from previous meeting OD 2.0 progress report and discussion Discussion of Japanese translation suggestions submitted by ishikawa (https://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/od-discuss/2014-March/000810.html) OKFest meeting Summary Had some trouble with the hangout so had... Read More

Notes from Open Definition Call February 2014

04 April 2014 Previous call notes.  Next call 2014-04-10 (2nd Thursday of even months) at 15:00 UTC. Participants Andrew Stott Herb Lainchbury Rufus Pollock Mike Linksvayer Agenda goals for 2014 review status of OD 2.0 as I feel we’ve not had sufficient time... Read More

Open Definition 2013: assessment and lessons

28 December 2013 Throughout 2013 fields such as open access, open data, open education, open government, and more saw unprecedented growth as policy and practice. The Open Definition played increasingly important and visible roles in fostering a shared understanding of “open” and helping... Read More

Notes from Open Definition call December 2013

13 December 2013 Previous call notes. Next call 2014-02-13 (2nd Thursday of even months) at 15:00 UTC. #Participants Herb Lainchbury Tom Lee Mike Linksvayer Rufus Pollock Andrew Stott Kat Walsh #Agenda/Notes #Agenda New Open Definition Advisory Council chair for 2014 Herb Lainchbury! As... Read More

Open Definition and License Proliferation

04 December 2013 License proliferation increases costs for publishers and users (more licenses to understand, evaluate, and comply with) and fractures the commons through incompatibility and non-open terms. The Open Definition Advisory Council and others have noted a surge in jurisdiction, sub-jurisdiction, and... Read More

Notes from Open Definition call October 2013

16 October 2013 Previous call notes. Next call December 12 (2nd Thursday of even months) at 15:00 UTC. #Participants Baden Appleyard Leigh Dodds Herb Lainchbury Mike Linksvayer Max Merret Kent Mewhort Rufus Pollock Luis Villa David Wrate #Agenda/Notes #Agenda ##FYI Two posts by... Read More

Notes from Open Definition call August 2013

08 August 2013 Previous call notes. Next call October 10 (2nd Thursday of even months) at 15:00 UTC. Participants Baden Appleyard Herb Lainchbury Tom Lee Mike Linksvayer (chair) Kent Mewhort Peter Murray-Rust #Agenda/Notes ##Open Definition 1.2 Name (OD, not OKD), copyedit done; no... Read More

Notes from Advisory Panel Meeting June 2013

03 August 2013 14 June 2013 ##Participants Baden Appleyard Jo Ellis Herb Lainchbury Mike Linksvayer (chair) Peter Murray-Rust Rufus Pollock Andrew Stott ##Agenda Release of O[K]D 1.2; see https://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/od-discuss/2013-June/000428.html OKD or OD for the main definition name; see https://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/od-discuss/2013-June/000427.html Disposition of OSSD (software... Read More

Feedback on Canada's proposed Open Government Licence Agreement

31 January 2013 Below is feedback submitted today on behalf of the Open Definition Advisory Council regarding Canada’s proposed Open Government Licence Agreement. Thanks especially to Andrew Stott for substantial contributions to this feedback, Herb Lainchbury (currently the AC’s sole Canadian member; also... Read More

Open Definition forges ahead - get involved!

17 December 2012 Open Defintion (OD) is one of the first projects that the the Open Knowledge Foundation created. Its purpose has been to provide, promote – and protect – a meaningful Open in Open Data and Open Content. It does this primarily... Read More

Notes from Advisory Panel Meeting December 2012

03 December 2012 Monday, December 3, 2012 15:00 UTC Chair: Mike Linksvayer PARTICIPANTS Mike Linksvayer Daniel Dietrich Peter Suber Luis Villa Herb Lainchbury Rufus Pollock AGENDA OD [AC] process/feedback Leftover Action Items OKD 1.2 explanation/post Spreadsheet for license [non-]compliance followups? UK OGL updates?... Read More

Notes from Advisory Panel Meeting September 2012

27 November 2012 CALL LOGISTICS When: Thursday, 6th September at 16:00 UTC / 17:00 BST / 18:00 CEST Strict limit to one hour Where: Skype Back channel: #okfn IRC channel on irc.freenode.net Chair: Daniel Dietrich (Skype: ddie22) Pad for note taking: http://opengovernmentdata.okfnpad.org/call PARTICIPANTS... Read More

Notes from Advisory Panel Meeting March 2012

24 March 2012 CALL LOGISTICS When: Monday, 19th March 18:00 GMT Please note the times in the Doodle-poll are 18:00 GMT. Strict limit to one hour Where: Skype Back channel: #okfn IRC channel on irc.freenode.net Chair: Daniel Dietrich (Skype: ddie22) PARTICIPANTS Confirmed: Rufus... Read More