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BEFORE THE FESTIVAL
## Facilitator Contact Details
Building the Open Coalition - Developing a Wider Community of Open
http://okfestival2014.sched.org/event-goers/c3c569029014fa151fa5760dffea7c55#.U7F1ZI1dVHJ
## Your session hashtag
#OKFestOC
## Participants: pre-event, to get in touch with each other (feel free to add your Twitter handle)
@hellominh
## Agenda + pre-festival materials, resources, instructions
Do your mean what you say?
Does what you say mean anything to anyone else
Not all about answers and outcomes - this is a space and time for critidal reflection.
What we all do is important and worthwhile, but are we doing it in the right way?
Bookending excercise: As people to take some time to write down their vision/mission (without looking it up) and think about 5 words that they use when describing their work.
Do the same words pop up? What are the frequencies? Is there overlap? Might some of them change the second time around?
Open Colaition Session objectives - possibly break into groups to work on all 3 of these:
First
- People coming forward to help solve shared problems / share projects
- People come with ideas for collaboration and projects
- (3rd, extra-special, we'll know we've hit the jackpot when: people come forward with funding)
Second
- We know that many groups are producing different things
- Can we make a library so we know what is missing and what is overlapping?
Third
- Clarity over what open means - this will be differnet in differnt sectors, PLOS as a case study
- Can we define and start mapping the open sector?
Possible Ways to Do This:
Build a poster wall / record videos where people can ask for help and share solutions - these can be collected on Twitter, YouTube and the Coalition website
Build this with an eye to wikimania
Capturing is going to be key - how to manage the smaller contributions -
Twitter
This etherpad
Notes
Bekka Khan
Open coalition
Obj
Open organisations to be better about sharing work and working practices
Building partnerships, helping solve each others problems
Please give your name
Exercise, write down the mission statement or objective of the organisation you are affiliated with
And
3 to 5 words that you regularly use when describing what your organisation describing what you do
Shared words:
- Open
- Access
- Free/freedom
- Transparency
Are there other organisations who do similar things to your organisation in other parts of the world
Do they communicate in a similar way?
Noone can decide on what open access is, gold and green are very confusing, much infighting about the definition of what open access is, very dogmatic and based on beliefs
How many organisations have defined open?
Open data has been defined, wider open is more fluffy
Open GLAM principles are the only fixing points, a common goal, a common denominator, 5 principles, took a while to decide, no attempt to revise so far
The word open is used on everything, open is so overused it doesn't mean everything
Open did very poorly to general public, open has negative connotations, especially around privacy
Open for the general public is confusing, sharing is more useful
Open cities, have less definitions
Open is being spread around and is losing its meaning
Special language is exclusitory
Mission statement plus description of the mission statement, problem is its too long, volunteers can remember it
People can project things that are very meaningful to them but mismatch with the organisational goals
Advocacy for ideals of students, use open as tools to achieve goals.
Open can induce fear, especially around privacy
Open and transparency can mean different things to different people, explaining to the general public is a big challenge
Some industries copy from each other but don't call it open
marketing vs governance communication, is there a strong correlation betweemarketing and visionstatementt
Rapid growth means that some things get worked out well, other do not
We inhabit the very open license part of the spectrum
How we do things rather than how we talk about things, this movement has grown quickly
Having these conversations in the open to embody the principles we espouse
Stories as part of communication, we don't share the same good stories, good examples of the possibilities of the sector as a whole
Test the messaging with normal people, people's mums
What do want people to do or think
Problem, solution, action
A range of audiences
Explaining the cumulative effects of all the groups working in this space and the values to them
The open community need to be more open about what they are doing and what they want
P full embrace open but don't talk about it because their audiences don't care
The north south divide is still a huge barrier in terms of understanding and experience
Agreeing on what are things that are harmful to what we are trying to do,rather than coming up with common definitions
The word open can become a barrier, miss understood by different people either overly positive or negative understanding
Open being used and misused is a sign of success
Lost in translation between languages, words that work in one languages have mixed messages in others, cultural differences
Don't drop open, define and elaborate on it
AT THE FESTIVAL
## Participants - name, contact (if you want to leave it), number of attendees
David Carroll- Open Access Button https://www.openaccessbutton.org/
Pieter-Jan Pauwels - Open Knowledge Belgium pieterjan@okfn.be
## Notes from the session
AFTER THE FESTIVAL
## What did you learn and/or make?
## How/what could you teach others?