>From another thread: "In particular, would a small task force, made up of a mix of local and working group coordinators, who would work with central staff most actively on this and keep the coordinators of other groups informed and consulted, be a useful way forward?"
It sounds like it could be; I know I'd be glad to take part. I'll try to put up a wiki page on this approach. I'm more neutral on whether or not OK leadership ^_^ adopts such an approach, as I understand you all need to go all-in on something that will ease your efforts and it's great that you're fine with local efforts using or not using as they see fit. I think growing awareness of a diversity of approaches could ultimately strengthen the core. For the future surveying you mention, I wanted to throw this tool out there -- though at face it's a simple open source A/B sorter, I've used it for a wide range of things, including a core tool in my curation advising with the Long Now Foundation on their core collection. http://blog.longnow.org/02014/02/06/manual-for-civilization-begins/ http://www.allourideas.org The beauty of these surveys is that you can ask and quantify a particular question, but the form remains open to completely unexpected input throughout the length of the process. That input is then quantified with all the rest. Long survey fatigue becomes a thing of the past. The sample survey ("Try a wikisurvey") is illuminating: The City of New York ended up with a novel top priority for their green efforts which came completely from left field but rose to the top. - Heath On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 4:52 AM, Laura James <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Heath, > > These are great ideas :) thoughts in-line: > > On 12 April 2014 19:28, heath rezabek <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have a thought on this, and want to present a possible way a local >> ambassador or chapter could utilize the logo and tagline in a flexible but >> harmonious way. One thing I'd be interested to hear is whether or not such >> a usage would be acceptable to OK Leadership. If so, then to me it feels >> like a built-in solution. >> > > You mean "Open Knowledge leadership" of course ;-) > > With the addition of the word 'open' to the first tagline, you'd end up >> with >> >> See How Open Data Can Change the World >> >> ... which meshes more completely with Open Data Open Minds. With this as >> an example, it's not much of a stretch to envision a tagline saying: >> >> See How Open Science Can Change The World >> >> or ... >> >> See How Open Platforms Can Change The World >> >> ... which of course leads to Open Science / Open Minds ... or Open >> Platforms / Open Minds ... and even Open Knowledge / Open Minds. >> > > This sounds awesome and is exactly the sort of thing we expect and hope > for from the network :) The brand stuff helps us at Central directly, and > it is there for adaption and/or adoption by local + working groups. If > "See how Open Science can change the world" is what the open science folks > feel will best support their purpose, then that's brilliant and we're > delighted to see it happen :) > > Maybe worth starting a wiki page for these ideas so others can contribute? > > We've never been a "top-down control" network at Open Knowledge - that's > why all the local groups and chapters have their own ways of working, their > own models for sustainability, their own focus areas and so on. There is no > intent to change that - each group knows its own area best. At Central we > can catalyse, support, share ideas - and if they get adopted or adapted or > both by groups that's excellent. (If they don't get adopted or adapted, we > can assume we aren't helping as well as we could, and we can try again and > learn!). > > > >> If it's acceptable for a local effort to use the logo along with a >> tagline that underlines the approach to Open Knowledge that they most fully >> pursue, then I see only solutions waiting to be applied to local needs; not >> a problem. >> > > :) me too. > > And if we have some variant but obviously connected taglines, that's > great, that uses the brand to best effect, strengthening the network and > openness in general, whilst allowing each group its own flavour and > specialism. That's Open Knowledge :) (Equally if a group wants to use the > main tagline, that's also totally fine!) > > >> >> While I know the determined tagline reads "See How Data Can" and not "See >> How Open Data Can", I wonder what the branding team might think of this >> slight change of perspective as a path to a full range of approaches. >> >> See How Open ______ Can Change the World >> >> Open ______ Open Minds >> >> > I'm not the whole branding team - but I love it :) > > Laura > > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > Unsubscribe: https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss > > -- Heath Rezabek // labs.vessel.cc Long Now Foundation (Intern) // Manual for Civilization Project // longnow.org Icarus Interstellar // FarMaker Design Corps // icarusinterstellar.org Open Knowledge Foundation // Texas Ambassador for the OKFn // okfn.org
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