They have Benjamin Mako Hill in their advisory board, who is also in the WMF AB. Other then that, I see nothing familiar. Best regards, Lodewijk 2009/1/26 Lennart Guldbrandsson <wikihannibal(a)gmail.com>

Hi Lennart, I attended one of their conferences, OKCON, in London a couple of years ago. I was also involved with one of their projects, Open Shakespeare. They do a lot of work on open knowledge definitions and license compatibility. They are also involved in developing tools and in pushing specific projects (Open Shakespeare, open geodata, etc.). There are certainly quite a few areas of potential collaboration/support between OKFN and Wikimedia Foundation, particularly in their "Open Knowledge Production" and tools projects. At least, in these areas, there are similarities in goals. Unlike WF, they are not limited to open knowledge production and tools, and engage in more philosophical aspects of open/free knowledge. If you have any specific ideas, there is an official mailing list (http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss). There are also a number of more specific mailing lists (http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/). Oldak. 2009/1/26 Lennart Guldbrandsson <wikihannibal(a)gmail.com>om>: -- Oldak Quill (oldakquill(a)gmail.com)