Working Groups/odol/odc

= Open Data Commons Tasks =


 * Make license choice simpler
 * Move website to eu0.okfn.org (DEFERRED)

Website: 2009-04

 * Table of Contents (esp. for FAQs) -- prob requires plugin for WP

Human Readable Versions
Already have preambles which are pretty good.

PDDL: 'waive all rights'. You have no formal entitled to attribution or anything else. However may also apply a set of community norms. A proposed set of community norms is available here.

ODbL update tasks
See /odbl page.

FAQ page
Suggestions for additional questions:


 * Why do you recommend copying the PDDL rather than just using a url ...

= Done =


 * DONE 2009-01. 2008-11: transfer ODC onto OKFN (dns and website)
 * DONE 2009-01: update website -- see below (PRIORITY)
 * DONE Invite people to consultation
 * Who's been invited already?
 * People invited (or knowing about it) so far:
 * Open Street Map
 * Open Geo communities in Italy
 * Redhat Fedora
 * Open Science and SPARC Open Data mailing lists.

Updating Website: 2009-01

 * TO BE DONE Either don't set text colours or set a background colour: currently unreadable with some reasonable browser settings
 * more generally, check site design against W3C WCAGs
 * DONE Migrate Factual Information licence at http://www.opencontentlawyer.com/open-data/open-data-commons-factual-info-licence/ and add to co-ment
 * DONE RP: Simpler urls for licenses + versioning in urls e.g. pddl rather than full public-dedication-... and 1.0 etc
 * pddl/1.0/
 * odbl/0.9/ (then 1.0 when released)
 * Human readable versions of dedications/licenses (with warnings as necessary ...)
 * rework current preamble (but have in page)
 * DONE Upload ODBL v0.9
 * DEFERRED Digital metadata ... NOT IMPORTANT at the moment
 * DONE Update about page to mention move to OKFN etc
 * DONE (sort of -- see home page + licenses page) License chooser or getting started fast page
 * DONE Simple front page with news/blog posts on subpage at e.g. news/blog
 * DONE (mostly) Community and Process page (Advisory Council)