On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Birgitte SB birgitte_sb@yahoo.com wrote:
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From: James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Fri, July 15, 2011 10:39:14 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] roadmap for WM affiliation ; a name for self-identified affiliation
I agree something like "Open Knowledge Project" would be a more suitable term. Do they have any decals like those of Health on the Net that people could add to their websites? Should there be different degree of inclusiveness depending on non commercial or commercial reuse? I see this as the first step towards a greater sharing of content between sites.
"Open Knowledge Project" only works for content creators or relatively new projects that can still restrict their intake of content like Commons has. We don't want dilute "Open Knowledge" and the issue is existing GLAM organizations that want to affiliate with the movement. Some is needed more along the lines of "Dedicated to Emancipating Culture - we are committed the licensing all internally owned copyrights under [favorite free license] and to forthrightly advertising the most accurate copyright information we can on all the content we curate."
Birgitte SB
Not sure I follow - GLAM institutions are still about disseminating knowledge at low or no cost, so it seems like the name would still apply. Anyway, I think debating the name is a bit cart before horse - the idea is that these organizations seem to share common ideals, and could cooperative in mutually beneficial ways with some sort of formal vehicle.