Projects/criteria

This page is a draft. It describes the criteria which a project must fit to become a project of the Open Knowledge Foundation.

Required

 * Open Data and Content: project data and content, or any other kind of resources produced by the project, must be openly licensed in a way that is compatible with the Open Knowledge Definition
 * Free/Open Source Software: Software created to support the project must be open licensed in a way that is compatible with the OSI Open Source Definition
 * Public process: The project must be run in a public way and encourage participation from outsiders.
 * Existing projects must be alive: If the project is already in existence it must be alive, i.e. it should have at least one active maintainer/contributor.

Nice-to-haves

 * An existing diverse community of contributors
 * A stable base of software
 * A good collection of data

Additions and comments much appreciated, here or to the coord group list - the coord group is responsible for these guidelines.