[P2P-F] [FKI-Announce] Request for Comments: Redesigning FKI's Strategy

Thu Jun 7 13:57:15 CEST 2012

Dear all,

FYI, the Free Knowledge Institute presents its renewed strategy and
invites for comments. If you have time, your participation would be much
appreciated.

best,

Wouter

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Subject: [FKI-Announce] Request for Comments: Redesigning FKI's Strategy

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http://freeknowledge.eu/Request-for-Comments-Redesigning-FKI-Strategy

Dear all,

The Free Knowledge Institute is redesigning its Strategy for the coming
years and invites you all to comment. The FKI enters a new phase and is
expanding its areas of work into new domains. Moreover, the Institute
seeks to open itself up to participation and to help participants
realise the vision of a culture of free knowledge. We introduce several
opportunities in the areas of learning, activism, and economic
sustainability. We are very interested to know what you want the FKI to
be and what the FKI can do for you!

After the first 5 years of the FKI we feel that the time has come to
open up as an organisation. In short, the core team has prepared a set
of Strategy documents that we want to discuss with the community, to
improve and strengthen them. Then, once we have a rough consensus about
it, we want to work together putting it in practice.

Knowledge and Technology for a Free Knowledge Society is what the FKI
works for. We aim to facilitate and enable the study, sharing and
collaborative development of free knowledge. Our offering is a shared
vision and common platform for education, collaboration and advocacy in
free knowledge and free technology. The platform is completely based on
free software and free knowledge and is organised in a bottom-up manner.

We distinguish three types of opportunities that may be of interest to
participants:

    learning opportunities:
        use any of the existing resources
        participate in working groups
        take part in courses
    economic opportunities:
        by co-organising courses, work as assistant or partner
        developing projects along one of the business models
        join the Free Technology Guild to share and realise projects
together
    advocacy/activism opportunities:
        propose actions and campaigns
        participate in existing campaigns
        blog and share your knowledge

The FKI's initial mission has been to apply the principles of copyleft
and free software to other domains of knowledge. While its focus has
been mostly on Education, Software and Standards, we feel it is time to
expand into other domains. We invite interested people to join us in new
domains like hardware and energy, and to suggest other domains of interest.

Besides asking for your comments on our draft Strategy documents, we
invite you to share any thoughts and ideas that can help us reach our
common goal. Maybe you consider we're missing out on something
important, or you would like us to perform a certain role or service.
Let us know! And stand prepared to help us fulfilling it :) The main
Strategy documents can be found here: [1]. If you register an account on
the wiki you can leave comments at the discussion page. You're also very
welcome to use the FKI discussion list [2] to discuss these and other
issues.

Thank you all in advance,

	The FKI Team

[1] http://freeknowledge.eu/wiki/index.php/Strategy
[2] http://mail.freeknowledge.eu/mailman/listinfo/discussion