[Foundation-l] roadmap for WM affiliation ; a name for self-identified affiliation

[Nathan]

I can envision something like an Open Knowledge Project or some other
umbrella initiative, aimed at forging links between like-minded
organizations who wish to associate without losing independence or
explicitly taking responsibility for the work of others.  It could be
set up pretty simply:

* Establish the fundamentals of a broader identity with a statement of
shared values and a general intent to cooperate in the world
* Host a portal to communicate broadly common goals and and provide
information to both prospective colleagues and the general public
* Arrange formal and informal opportunities to create collaborative
ties between people and organizations and to develop a sense of shared
purpose

If you could get to that point growth would be pretty organic;
participants would suggest mutually agreeable and beneficial goals and
initiatives to be undertaken as a group, such undertakings would drive
closer cooperation and legitimate the concept of a free content / open
knowledge movement, and so on.

Organizations like PLoS, FSF, Creative Commons, the EFF, Wikimedia and
others have naturally overlapping interests and philosophies. It would
only make sense for those organizations, and the many smaller ones who
share their broad values, to cooperate as a group in a more formal way
than I believe they do currently.