Hi all, I was sitting (sans wifi) on the train earlier trying to think about how we could really simplify, boil down and crystallise what the OKF is about. I wanted to do this so that it is easier to explain to people what we're about - and to give us focus in what we are doing. The one sentence pitch!
I concluded that there is not much that we do that can't - broadly speaking - be lumped under either: * 'tools' (CKAN, Public Domain Works, Annotator, Open Literature...) * or 'community' (events, competitions, hackdays, IRC, mailing lists, working groups, blog, annotation sprints, etc). And the *main* motivating idea is the 'ecosystem' or 'commons' of information/content/data/knowledge. Hence: "We work to build tools and communities around an open knowledge commons that everyone is free to use, enjoy and share." Then I tried to capture these two main ideas in logos for 'tools' and 'communities' based on the colourful bubbles that seems to be becoming our house style. I created a basic flyer out of this: Front: http://www.flickr.com/photos/okfn/5550671746/ Back: http://www.flickr.com/photos/okfn/5550671744/ Second (slightly more crowded) alternative for front: http://www.flickr.com/photos/okfn/5550734094/ I'd like to get something like this printed out as a nice double-sided square flyer ASAP. The 'Please Share Me' refers to both open knowledge - and to the physical flyer, which I intend to leave in relevant places on my travels (on noticeboards, in hacker spaces, etc). What do people think? Good, bad, ugly? ;-) J. -- Jonathan Gray Community Coordinator The Open Knowledge Foundation http://blog.okfn.org http://twitter.com/jwyg http://identi.ca/jwyg _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
