Open Knowledge Foundation – Mike Linksvayer

abernard102@gmail.com 2013-02-22

Summary:

"I used to privately poke fun at the Open Knowledge Foundation for what seemed like a never-ending stream of half-baked projects (and domains, websites, lists, etc). I was wrong. (I have also criticized OKF’s creation of a database-specific copyleft license, but recognize its existence is mostly Creative Commons’ fault, just as I criticize some of Creative Commons’ licenses but recognize that their existence is mostly due to a lack of vision on the part of free software activists.) Some of those projects have become truly impressive (eg the Public Domain Review and CKAN, the latter being a 'data portal' deployed by numerous governments in direct competition with proprietary 'solutions'; hopefully my local government will eventually adopt the instance OpenOakland has set up). Some projects once deemed important seem relatively stagnant, but were way ahead of their time, if only because the non-software free/open universe painfully lags software (eg, KnowledgeForge). I haven’t kept track of most OKF projects, but whichever ones haven’t succeeded wildly don’t seem to have caused overall problems. Also, in the past couple years, OKF has sprouted local groups around the world. Why has the OKF succeeded, despite what seemed to me for a time chaotic behavior? ..."

Link:

http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2013/02/13/open-knowledge-foundation/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.data oa.licensing oa.comment oa.copyright oa.floss oa.okfn oa.definitions oa.public_domain_review oa.ckan oa.c oa.libre

Date tagged:

02/22/2013, 11:44

Date published:

02/22/2013, 06:44