So, "See how data can change the world" is still an awful tag-line. It has absolutely nothing to do with OK projects like the Public Domain Review. And so on and so on. Also, it was written with a gross lack of community input. Today, it remains many months later on the homepage because once you just do something, even poorly and undemocratically, it is done and becomes the default. The burden is now on others to change it.
Given a dramatic lack of consensus and serious concern about this stuff, I find it troubling that topic was basically discussed just enough that it was drawn out and then died down and no action was taken. It remains the case that anyone who cares about something like the Public Domain Review would look at okfn.org and probably leave. The homepage clearly states that okfn.org is just about big data — which might as well be data relating to tracking everyone's behaviors for all a first look might interpret (rather than data from science and government stats). Yada yada yada. This was all discussed. If we can't get consensus on a better tag-line, how about NO tagline? Instead have a brief paragraph describing what the heck OK does actually or who it is? Actually, that stuff seems present if you just scroll down. So just DELETE that whole green useless section from the homepage. Oh, but please add something in the bottom section that covers the sort of cultural stuff that Public Domain Review does, since that's *still* absent (indicating OK's leaning toward disregarding those areas, which I hope isn't going to continue). Respectfully, Aaron Wolf Snowdrift.coop _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss Unsubscribe: https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss
