[Chapter-delegates] OneWebDay and Drumbeat

[Sivasubramanian Muthusamy]

Hello Joly, Olivier


On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:

> I'll say in it's defense that drumbeat is not a 'militant civil
> society organisation' by any means, it's a worthy effort with much of
> the same aims as ISOC, and which we should make every effort to
> support it. It is very young, and still unfocused, but it could well
> be a valuable partner in Community Projects.  But just because it's
> the pre-occupation of the current Chairman, and former Executive
> Director, of OWD is no reason that OWD should be consigned to the
> scrapheap.
>
> What is the nature of agreement (if any) between OWD and Drumbeat ?  If OWD
is folded into Drumbeat, is there any merger agreement that would legally
prevent OneWebDay from continuing on its own?

If there is no such legal arrangement, from Chapters we can team up and
carry it forward along its ORIGINAL plans.

You mentioned that there was a suggestion to rename it OneNetDay, if
renaming is desirable, why not "Internet Day?"

Isoc provided initial funds. Now if Chapters are to 'inherit' OWD, it may
not be a bad idea to apply for a joint community grant. + We can think of
funds from Ford, Word Press and brainstorm for more donors. We can also make
some joint efforts such as a fresh social networking portel, co-developed
collaboratively with participation from those who are good at web
development.

( I am setting up a small Web Development division, which will have skillful
resources to be committed to such an exercise.
http://www.isolatednetworks.com ) At Chennai we have a few more members who
are talented in WebDevelopment who can team up with you and others from
elsewhere to get OWD re-launched on a more impressive scale.

Shiva.

Sivasubramanian Muthusamy


> A very attractive OWD sponsor could be the WordPress Foundation, who
> just scored $28,000 off the the recent WordCamp NYC
> http://2009.newyork.wordcamp.org/2010/01/23/show-me-the-money/
>
> They could sponsor a full-on multi-user buddypress development for
> OneWebDay.
>
> One suggestion punted out is that we just ignore the old organization
> and work on OneNetDay - that would keep the techie quibblers quiet
> too!
>
> joly
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 4:11 AM, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Le 07/04/2010 09:53, Joly MacFie a écrit :
> >
> > [...]
> >> So what it appears now is that the even the purveyors of the
> >> year-round concept have realized that it's an ill fit for OneWebDay
> >> and, with more Ford Foundation $$ evidently not forthcoming, and Susan
> >> Crawford still recovering from her year in the White House, OneWebDay
> >> is for the dumper.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > [...]
> >> Comments?
> >>
> >
> > Year round project is way too much work, and way too diluted, to be
> > effective, IMHO.
> > I wonder whether OWD is something which ISOC could help in finding
> > sponsors for?
> > I loved the concept of OWD, but if it's to metamorphose it into another
> > militant civil society organisation, well... there are already plenty of
> > these around.
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Olivier
> >
> > --
> > Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD
> > http://www.gih.com/ocl.html
> >
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