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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 

Second

Third


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:
 

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?