Notes from Project and Coord Call

April 30, 2012 in Uncategorized

# Overview

## Headlines
* New strategy for projects call: once a month, a larger community call will take place. It will have a longer timeslot and will give a broader overview of what’s going on in the OKFN. It will be open to all.
* The fortnightly projects call is *cancelled*.
* We will need a new technology, as the group is likely to be too large for Skype.

* Meetups on Wed, Thurs and Fri in Berlin this week. If you have contacts in Berlin who’d like to meet the OKFN team, please invite them!
* There will be a meeting at the new OKFN Germany office the following week
* The final deadline for OKFestival submission proposals is June 2nd. The ten 2012 festival themes have already been decided and will be shared on the OKFestival website by the end of this week.

* No wolfpack call next Monday (bank holiday)

## Events
* Wisis Workshop (line 14) [LN] – Daniel attending this to present Open Government toolkit, to double as OKFN ambassador
* International Workshop: Identifying benefits deriving from the adoption of XML-based chains for drafting legislation (line 12) – probably a no but just to check [LN] – agreed, Daniel might attend for EPSI platform but not with ‘OKFN hat’ on. LN to confirm no attendance
* Cultural Heritage in the Digital Domain (line 18) [LN] – Sam and Joris missing, LN to e-mail

## Actions
* NL & LN to look into technology for calls – make informed decision, a paid-for solution is an option
* LN to catch-up with David re. Mumble – what did the CKAN team think of it when they explored it as an option.
* LN to catch-up with Nils re. alternative technologies.
* LN to drop an email to all in OKFN discuss, when would be best for monthly meetings and what should they include?
* LN to cancel fortnightly projects call, instate monthly call in its place.
* LN to confirm no attendance at International Workshop
* LN to e-mail Sam / Joris re Cultural Heritage talk opportunity
* NL to ping people again re:Pulse, remind them about local clients, encourage feedback

# Projects Meeting

Projects meeting 30th April 2012. 1pm UK time. (1200 UTC)

## Participants
* Kat Braybrooke – Community Coordinator
* Hauke Gierow – Community Coordinator – Germany
* Laura James – Foundation Coordinator
* Naomi Lillie – Community Coordinator & Foundation Administrator
* Laura Newman – Community Coordinator
* Mark Wainwright – Community Coordinator (CKAN)

## Apologies
* Ira Bolychevsky – Product Owner – CKAN
* Lucy Chambers – Community Coordinator
* Christian Chiarcos – Open Linguistics
* Stefano Costa – Open Archaeology
* Tim Davies – Open Development
* Daniel Dietrich – Chapter Lead – Germany
* Velichka Dimitrova – Open Economics
* Primavera de Filippi – Public Domain Calculators / Open Metadata Handbook
* Adam Green – Public Domain Review Dude
* James Harriman-Smith – Open Humanities
* Peter Hicks – Open Transport
* Sam Leon – Community Coordinator
* Friedrich Lindenberg – OpenSpending & Many many other projects
* Mark MacGillivray – Open Biblio
* Theodora Middleton – Blogmeister
* Jenny Molloy – Open Science Working Group
* Peter Murray-Rust – Open Science Working Group / Open Biblio
* Sebastian Nordhoff – Open Linguistics
* Tom Olijhoek – Open @ccess
* Joris Pekel – DM2E – Queensday in the Netherlands
* Rufus Pollock – BDFL
* Tom Rees – OKFN Labs

## Agenda
* 2 minute Updates (feel free to type in the ## updates section while people are doing their introductions)
* WG coordinators can add themselves to:
* How should these calls be organised?
1. Organisation
* Today only Hauke is non-core attendee, but this is the only opportunity for him / others to discuss projects with rest of team
* It was agreed that meetings should be less often and that occasional face-to-face meetings are useful
* HG doesn’t see need for distinction for volunteer / core / WG / etc – need to keep openness within organisation. Updates not necessarily useful on weekly basis but overall bigger picture useful to know
* One Monday per month for broader organisation update generally agreed, although noted that it’s a meeting-heavy day; people will need to be clear on purpose of call and plan what they wish to say to make it efficient
2. Technology
* Mumble?
* http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/
* http://www.anymeeting.com/
* http://www.onwebinar.com/
* https://www.webhuddle.com/
* http://chat.nlp2rdf.org/chat.php?chat=lobby

## AOB
* Meetups Wed, Thurs, Fri in Berlin this week. If you have contacts in Berlin who’d like to meet the OKFN team, please invite them! https://blog.okfn.org/2012/04/27/meet-the-okf-in-berlin/ – refer to e-mail sent by Kat -> * Republica on 10th, meeting at new OKFN DE office the following week http://lanyrd.com/2012/open-knowledge-meetup-republica/
* The final deadline for OKFestival submission proposals is June 2nd – the ten 2012 festival themes have also been decided and will be shared on the OKFestival website by the end of this week.

## Actions
* Catch-up with David re. Mumble – what did the CKAN team think of it when they explored it as an option
* Technology a key issue – make informed decision, a paid-for solution is an option
* Drop an email to all in OKFN discuss, when would be best for monthly meetings and what should they include?
* Cancel fortnightly projects call, instate monthly call in its place.

# Wolfpack Team Meeting notes

Team meeting 30th April. around 1.30 pm UK time. (12:30 UTC)

## Participants
* Kat Braybrooke
* Marcus Dapp
* Daniel Dietrich
* Laura James
* Naomi Lillie
* Laura Newman
* Darwin Peltan
* Mark Wainwright

## Apologies
* Lucy Chambers
* Velichka Dimitrova
* Sam Leon
* Joris Pekel
* Rufus Pollock
* Tom Rees

## Agenda
* Fortnightly projects call cancelled in favour of monthly broad organisational call, therefore need to consider technology to enable this to work successfully. Mumble is being looked into as a reliable forum for this. LN (or whoever looking into suitable tech) to discuss Mumble with Nils

## Updates & FAO (paste your notebook link in here [name](link)):
* FAO Everyone: Any major updates should go in your FAOs from now on 🙂
* [Naomi Lillie] (http://notebook.okfn.org/2012/04/30/week-ahead-naomi-lillie-16/ )
* [Laura Newman](http://notebook.okfn.org/2012/04/30/week-ahead-laura-newman-17/)
* [Kat Braybrooke](http://notebook.okfn.org/2012/04/30/week-ahead-kat-braybrooke-25/)
* [Darwin Peltan] (http://notebook.okfn.org/2012/04/30/week-ahead-darwin-peltan/)
* [Laura James] http://notebook.okfn.org/2012/04/30/week-ahead-laura-james-15/ key point: less projects as I handover to Jilly&Darwin, more core Foundation Coordinaton & strategy

## Events (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgKCQJHmtLY_dGNER3RLRWJTbjItNzBBNnc2aDNuUnc&pli=1#gid=0)
* Wisis Workshop (line 14) [LN] – Daniel attending this to present Open Government toolkit, to double as OKFN ambassador
* International Workshop: Identifying benefits deriving from the adoption of XML-based chains for drafting legislation (line 12) – probably a no but just to check [LN] – agreed, Daniel might attend for EPSI platform but not with ‘OKFN hat’ on. LN to confirm no attendance
* Cultural Heritage in the Digital Domain (line 18) [LN] – Sam and Joris missing, LN to e-mail

## AOB
* Pulse – useful? https://okfn.campfirenow.com/room/406005 send reminder around

## Actions
* LN (or whoever looking into suitable tech) to discuss Mumble with Nils
* LN to confirm no attendance at International Workshop
* LN to e-mail Sam / Joris re Cultural Heritage talk opportunity
* NL to ping people again re:Pulse, remind them about local clients, encourage feedback

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