<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> ----- Forwarded Message -----<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Wouter Tebbens <wouter@freeknowledge.eu><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, 7 June 2012, 12:57<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [P2P-F] [FKI-Announce] Request for Comments: Redesigning FKI's Strategy<br> </font> </div> <br>Dear all,<br><br>FYI, the Free Knowledge Institute presents its renewed strategy and<br>invites for
comments. If you have time, your participation would be much<br>appreciated.<br><br>best,<br><br>Wouter<br><br>--------- Original Message --------<br>Subject: [FKI-Announce] Request for Comments: Redesigning FKI's Strategy<br><br>Permanent link:<br><a href="http://freeknowledge.eu/Request-for-Comments-Redesigning-FKI-Strategy" target="_blank">http://freeknowledge.eu/Request-for-Comments-Redesigning-FKI-Strategy</a><br><br>Dear all,<br><br>The Free Knowledge Institute is redesigning its Strategy for the coming<br>years and invites you all to comment. The FKI enters a new phase and is<br>expanding its areas of work into new domains. Moreover, the Institute<br>seeks to open itself up to participation and to help participants<br>realise the vision of a culture of free knowledge. We introduce several<br>opportunities in the areas of learning, activism, and economic<br>sustainability. We are very interested to know what you want the FKI to<br>be and what the
FKI can do for you!<br><br>After the first 5 years of the FKI we feel that the time has come to<br>open up as an organisation. In short, the core team has prepared a set<br>of Strategy documents that we want to discuss with the community, to<br>improve and strengthen them. Then, once we have a rough consensus about<br>it, we want to work together putting it in practice.<br><br>Knowledge and Technology for a Free Knowledge Society is what the FKI<br>works for. We aim to facilitate and enable the study, sharing and<br>collaborative development of free knowledge. Our offering is a shared<br>vision and common platform for education, collaboration and advocacy in<br>free knowledge and free technology. The platform is completely based on<br>free software and free knowledge and is organised in a bottom-up manner.<br><br>We distinguish three types of opportunities that may be of interest to<br>participants:<br><br> learning opportunities:<br>
use any of the existing resources<br> participate in working groups<br> take part in courses<br> economic opportunities:<br> by co-organising courses, work as assistant or partner<br> developing projects along one of the business models<br> join the Free Technology Guild to share and realise projects<br>together<br> advocacy/activism opportunities:<br> propose actions and campaigns<br> participate in existing campaigns<br> blog and share your knowledge<br><br>The FKI's initial mission has been to apply the principles of copyleft<br>and free software to other domains of knowledge. While its focus has<br>been mostly on Education, Software and Standards, we feel it is time to<br>expand into other
domains. We invite interested people to join us in new<br>domains like hardware and energy, and to suggest other domains of interest.<br><br>Besides asking for your comments on our draft Strategy documents, we<br>invite you to share any thoughts and ideas that can help us reach our<br>common goal. Maybe you consider we're missing out on something<br>important, or you would like us to perform a certain role or service.<br>Let us know! And stand prepared to help us fulfilling it :) The main<br>Strategy documents can be found here: [1]. If you register an account on<br>the wiki you can leave comments at the discussion page. You're also very<br>welcome to use the FKI discussion list [2] to discuss these and other<br>issues.<br><br>Thank you all in advance,<br><br> The FKI Team<br><br>[1] <a href="http://freeknowledge.eu/wiki/index.php/Strategy" target="_blank">http://freeknowledge.eu/wiki/index.php/Strategy</a><br>[2] <a
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