Dear Andrius, On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Andrius Kulikauskas<[email protected]> wrote: > What are ways that we might work in synergy with Open Knowledge Foundation?
Many thanks for the re-iteration of your kind offer to pledge volunteer time at the Open Knowledge Foundation! Below are some suggestions of things which we need help with, which I also sent you in June and July. Just to reiterate a couple of things that would be really useful: 1. Translating the Open Knowledge Definition into languages not already listed on http://opendefinition.org/ 2. Adding open government data from different jurisdictions to CKAN (e.g. national statistics, postcode data, geodata, ...) as in http://wiki.okfn.org/ckan/eutransparency Also if you know any graphic designers there is plenty of design work that we would love to do! There is also a big list of things to do on our task tracker: http://knowledgeforge.net/okfn/tasks/query The best thing to do, is probably to let me know who might be interested in doing what, and to set a day (preferably a Tuesday sometime over the next few weeks) when we can coordinate via IRC, phone or Skype! Best wishes, Jonathan --- Many thanks for your message and for your kind pledge of twenty hours of volunteer time! There are plenty of things volunteers could do to help at the OKF. It would be great to hear more about the interests of the participants who might work with us. A few immediate things that I can think of: * Translating the Open Knowledge Definition (opendefinition.org) * Curating/archiving books at Open Text Book (opentextbook.org) * Registering open data on CKAN (ckan.net) * Book design for Open Shakespeare (openshakespeare.org) There is some more information on volunteering at the OKF below... Warm regards, Jonathan Gray Community Coordinator The Open Knowledge Foundation http://www.okfn.org -- ## Volunteer with the Open Knowledge Foundation! ## The Open Knowledge Foundation (http://www.okfn.org) is a not-for-profit organisation that promotes knowledge that can be freely used, reused and redistributed - from sonnets to statistics, genes to geodata. It hosts a wide variety of volunteer driven projects and working groups that aim to produce and distribute open knowledge. Whether you are interested in making new editions of literary works in the public domain, making interactive visualisations of socioeconomic data, or in sharing textbooks for educational projects - there is sure to be something of interest! Current projects requiring volunteers include: * Open Shakespeare and Open Milton: complete editions of Shakespeare and Milton's works along with tools for analysing the texts - freely available for anyone to use or share. We need volunteers to proof edit and format texts, or even to create an original book cover design for a print edition of the plays! * Open Text Book: one of the primary online listings and repositories of textbooks free to access, build on and re-distribute. We need the assistance of a part-time editor to curate and extend our current listing and blog about new finds. * Open Economics "Where Does My Money Go": developer and researcher needed to develop prize-winning "Where Does My Money Go" project proposal which aims to help citizens make sense of UK government finance. * European Open Data Inventory: Just launched in Brussels - the project aims to track down and document official information from public bodies across Europe. Get stuck into the budgets, socioeconomic information, environmental data or parliamentary transcripts behind the headlines! * Public Domain Works: help to chart which works have fallen out of copyright in different jurisdictions around the world. Find out more about intellectual property law and help to expose literary works or sound recordings which are in the public domain. Whether you've got a few spare hours or a few weeks over the summer - we'd love to hear from you! For further details contact us at [email protected]. -- Jonathan Gray Community Coordinator The Open Knowledge Foundation http://www.okfn.org _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
