From Open Knowledge Foundation

This page outlines all of the roles that community members, volunteers and staff alike, fulfill. Most of the roles take less than half an hour per week and the OKFN strongly encourages participation from newcomers. If you would like to participate or would like further advice, please fill out our get involved form. Thanks for your interest.

Contents 1 Coordinators 1.1 Foundation Coordinator 1.2 Chapter Coordinator 1.3 Project Coordinator 1.4 Community Coordinator 1.4.1 Project Community Coordinator 1.5 Working Group Coordinator 1.6 Volunteer Coordinator 1.7 Foundation Coordinator 1.8 Funding Coordinator 1.9 Merchandise Coordinator 1.10 Fundraising Administrative Coordinator 2 Ambassadors 2.1 Community Ambassador 3 Editors, Authors and Curators 3.1 Website Editor 3.2 Newsletter Editor 3.3 Bulletin Editor 3.4 Contributing Blogger 3.5 Editor for getthedata.org 3.6 Ideas Curator 4 Sysadmin and Webministration 4.1 Sysadmin 4.2 Webministrator 4.3 Wiki Gardener 5 Designer and Developers 5.1 Graphic Designer 5.2 Website Designer 5.3 Developer 6 Project Specific 6.1 Open Definition: Conformance Process Coordinator

Coordinators

Foundation Coordinator

• Oversee Foundation projects and working groups and collect information for Board perusal

Chapter Coordinator

See also the Chapter Lead page

Primary coordinator and lead for a chapter. Chapters are geographically based, rather than disciplinary.

Project Coordinator

See the /Project Coordinator page

Primary manager and coordinator for a project.

Community Coordinator

See also the Community Coordinator page.

The Community Coordinator will be responsible for expanding and diversifying the Foundation's network, for helping to bring the Foundation's activities to a wider audience, and for identifying new potential collaborations, projects and activities with external partners. He or she will be one of several people at the Open Knowledge Foundation who work in this area.

Project Community Coordinator

See also the Project Community Coordinator page.

In many ways linked to the overall community coordinator role, but with project-specific focus.

Working Group Coordinator

See Working Group Coordinator

Coordinates a working groups; acts as a group manager.

Volunteer Coordinator

See also the Volunteer Coordinator page.

Keeps the community's volunteers happy, busy and engaged.

Foundation Coordinator

See also the Funding Coordinator page.

Identifies and realises opportunities for funding.

Funding Coordinator

See also the Foundation Coordinator page.

Acts as a representative of the foundation and provides oversight.

Merchandise Coordinator

See also the Merchandise Coordinator page.

Responsible for OKFN merchandise

Fundraising Administrative Coordinator

See also the Fundraising Administrative Coordinator page.

Tracks donations, keeps supporters up-to-date and engaged and coordinates fundraising drives

Ambassadors

Community Ambassador

See also the Community Ambassador page.

Nominated spokespeople for the OKFN.

Editors, Authors and Curators

Website Editor

See also the Website Editor page.

Helps out with managing the content (and discussion) around Foundation's general websites and blogs. This includes spam detection and flag up any particularly useful comments and post for discussion on okfn-discuss.

Newsletter Editor

See also the Newsletter Editor page.

Assists with the drafting and publication of the newsletter.

Bulletin Editor

Community Roles/Bulletin Editor

Assists with preparing Bulletins like the Open Government Data Bulletin.

Contributing Blogger

See also the Contributing Blogger page.

Writes blog posts for the OKFN Blog.

Editor for getthedata.org

See also the Editor for getthedata.org page.

Finds and improves questions on http://getthedata.org/. This includes editing tags, voting where appropriate and so forth.

Ideas Curator

See also the Ideas Curator page.

Reviews submissions, organises and promotes the use of ideas.okfn.org.

Sysadmin and Webministration

Sysadmin

See also the Sysadmin page.

• Fixes and manages simple site components.
• (un)installs software and apps

Webministrator

See Community Roles/Webministrator.

Helps manage websites at general level (not sysadmin level) e.g. spam detection and elimination, comment management, user management etc.

Wiki Gardener

See also the Wiki Gardener page.

Helps keep the wiki looking polished, removes spam etc.

Designer and Developers

Graphic Designer

See also the Graphic Designer page.

Support's the OKFN's message with effective visual design.

Website Designer

Design sites, write HTML and CSS

Developer

Development code especially for webapps -- Python, PHP, javascript ...

Project Specific

NB: many project roles are listed on the project's own website or wiki. Items here are usually for projects without there own dedicated space for this sort of material.

Open Definition: Conformance Process Coordinator

• Time: < 2h per month though can be more if you get super-interested -- we'd be delighted if, for example, you wanted started to dig into the minutiae of licenses but it isn't required!)
• Skills needed: email

Quite a few new "open" licenses are getting created across the world at the moment. The primary purpose of http://OpenDefinition.org is to create criterion for checking whether these licenses really are open (in particular that they don't add any niggly conditions which break compatibility).

The job of checking license conformance falls to the Open Definition Advisory Council.

However, someone is required to:

• keep an eye on the mailing list
• queue up queries when they come in (e.g. this one)
• once every month or two ping the list (and possibly advisory council members directly) about looking at this and making a vote on conformance.