Re: [Semediawiki-user] Announcement: Open Semantic Data Association (OSDA)

[Laurent A. <la...@al...>]

Congratulations.

This is an important milestone for SMW !

- Laurent

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Markus Krötzsch <
ma...@se...> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> we are very happy to announce the creation of a new non-profit
> organization that supports the goals of SMW and related tools and
> applications: the Open Semantic Data Association (OSDA). This is the
> result of a long effort in establishing an SMW-related charity that has
> been supported by a number of people from the community (many thanks!).
>
> We hope that the creation of OSDA will help us to better support the
> great activities around this community. For example, we needed some kind
> of organizational structure to support the organization of the SMWCon
> meetings. Another example is when an Open Source project wants to apply
> for a grant or award that requires a representative organization (like
> Google Summer of Code this year).
>
> OSDA is able to provide such support as long as it relates to its
> general charitable not-for-profit goals (chiefly: supporting education,
> free access to semantic data, and related open source tools).
> Officially, is a charitable registered association under German law
> (gemeinnütziger eingetragener Verein, VR 3603, Amtsgericht Karlsruhe)
> seated in Karlsruhe, Germany. It is legally required to operate as a
> not-for-profit organization that only pursues the charitable goals set
> forth in its statutes.
>
> It should be noted that OSDA does not generally represent Semantic
> MediaWiki or any of its related projects or organizations, even though
> some members of OSDA may be closely affiliated with these. (In other
> words: OSDA is not the "Mozilla Foundation of SMW".)
>
> OSDA is a volunteer organization that does not currently have any
> employees. A small Management Board is in charge of the practical
> operations. A Steering Committee of OSDA members discusses important
> matters and takes decisions on the activities of the OSDA. The OSDA
> Management Board is currently comprised of:
>
>     * President: Markus Krötzsch, University of Oxford
>     * Vice president: Yaron Koren, WikiWorks
>     * Treasurer: Frank Dengler, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
>
> The current OSDA Steering Committee includes the members of the
> Management Board and the following members:
>
>     * Michael Cariaso, SNPedia.com
>     * Jeroen De Dauw, independent
>     * Daniel Hansch, ontoprise GmbH
>     * Joel Natividad, TCG Software Inc.
>     * Lydia Pintscher, KDE
>     * Don Undeen, Metropolitan Museum of Art
>     * Denny Vrandecic, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
>     * Jesse Wang, Vulcan Inc.
>
> As you can see, OSDA is a community-based organization, and of course we
> will maintain this in the future (the committee members will naturally
> change over time).
>
> To contact OSDA, please write to os...@se....
>
> Cheers,
>
> Markus
>
>
>
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