On 3 April 2013 10:55, Mark Wainwright <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Seriously, 100% men on a panel of 5 is VERY bad. Not really very open. > > > Not sure I understand your use of the word open here :S > > 'Open' means, among other things, with 'No Discrimination Against > Persons or Groups' - according to the Open Definition [1]. > Just to be clear that's about access (licensing) to data / knowledge not about the composition of panels :-) (or about governance processes) I think it was this distinction between open "process" and open knowledge that David was alluding to. I should emphasize that the two need not be correlated at all, in fact, many open knowledge projects have dictatorial or oligarchic governance models (think of the committer group for F/OSS projects or Linus Torvalds ...) Anyway this was an aside from the main thread. Rufus > If the panel of 5 men is not a 1-in-32 freak occurrence, it appears > that such panels are not very 'open' to women - since I do not think > that women are constitutionally less interested in open data or less > competent to take part in panels. [1] http://opendefinition.org/okd/ > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss >
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