[Talk-GB] Redraft of objectives for OSMUK

[Richard Symonds]

WMUK uses the following definition:
https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Open_knowledge

"The definition of Open Content given in the Articles of Association says:

 "Content" means textual or numerical information, still or moving images,
sound or music or other data disseminated on printed, electronic and other
appropriate media and services. Content is subject to editorial policies
and safeguards designed to ensure its overall accuracy and quality.

Content is "Open" when it is available for no charge and without
discrimination to the general public, with legal rights to view, copy,
share, adapt, improve and otherwise use and reuse that content and when
technical measures are in place to support such usage."

Richard Symonds
Wikimedia UK
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On 17 February 2016 at 22:05, Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> >Hi everyone
> >
> >3rd draft following this week's concall
> ><snip>
> >
> >@Rob - this really needs to go in the wiki but I'm not really proficient at
> >wiki editing
> >
> >Regards
> >Brian
>
> Hi Brian,
>
> Sorry for the delay. This is done now [1]. By the way the wiki is now a
> lot easier to edit as it has a new "WYSIWYG" type editor :-)
>
> My comments on the draft are:
>
>    - To avoid confusion with OS OpenData we should change "OpenData" to
>    either "open data" or, my preference, the more general "information".
>    - As we cover UK and Islands then we shouldn't use just UK in the
>    objectives. Suggest replacing "the UK" with "the Region" and defining this
>    somewhere in our articles of association.
>
> We should push to adopt this at the next meeting. Do we have a date for
> that yet?
>
> Cheers,
> *Rob*
> [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_Group
>
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