Hi We, the legal working group have been asked as a result of a chat in the SOTM working group call (which mike and I were also on) to propose talk(s) about the license at SOTM.
Today in our call we brainstormed a little around a few ideas and we thought it would be good to flesh them out here and see what you guys think might work, or not. So here are some ideas to think around, or if you have your own please chime in. We can do these, some combination, all of them, or whatever. We'd like your help in thinking what the best things to do are 1) A high level, simple, talk for the business day on rough use cases on the data and best practise. Something like "you can use OSM data but make sure you don't mix it with proprietary data, make sure you attribute OSM". This wouldn't be a perfect talk, but would give businesses and people looking to get involved with OSM a high level introduction without getting too scary 2) A talk at the main OSM conf days about the PROCESS of the legal working group. How often we meet, who we are, how a meeting goes, what we discuss, who we talk to, what the minutes look like, how to get involved... This is just about how we work, not the subject matter to give people a better insight in to what goes on. 3) A debate at the main OSM conf. A panel of key members of the license working group plus jordan and rufus. It lasts an hour. 15 minutes are brief introductions and points of view from the panel members and then 45 minutes of open debate on any license issue with a moderator. This might be before lunch or a break so people can continue discussing afterward. 4) The same as (3) but with a _structured_ debate. Say 4 main topics and 10 minutes debate on each, or 3 topics of 15 minutes each. Something like that so that rather than debate about anything we debate some key issues to make sure they are covered. Remember these are only ideas to be discussed here, not our solid plans. Thoughts? Best Steve _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
