SoftwareClubProposal

Proposal for KForge Club
This proposal has achieved consensus. Visit the SoftwareClub page for more information.

Summary
The Open Knowledge Foundation proposes to host a software club for open knowledge systems (called “KForge Club”). The club would exist to improve information system support for open knowledge initiatives.

Purpose
The club would be directed solely towards the following objectives.
 * 1) To sustain the operation of the club by building consensus on proposals to allocate sufficient resources for the host to continue its operation.
 * 2) To support open knowledge information system capacity building.

Approach
The strategy of the club would be to follow the operational cycle for software clubs.

Background
The Open Knowledge Foundation has been developing software and services to support open knowledge for several years. The funding for open knowledge software and services has been almost entirely from ad hoc, personal, philanthropic investment of people close to the project.

The purpose of this club would consist of forming an active network of philanthropic investors and open knowledge beneficiaries to share open knowledge information system developments in an open and incremental manner.

During 2009, a proposal for the software club was derived and qualified amongst initial contacts within the open knowledge community. The proposal was recorded herein as the reference for a productive consensus.

Programme of Work
There are no proposed tasks within this proposal.

Time-scales and Deliverables
The club would exist indefinitely from May 2009. The operational cycle would be restarted every three months (start of February, May, August, and November).

Costs
There are no cost implications within this proposal.