Omaha Commons:Advisory Board Mission Statement

[edit] Mission statement for the Omaha Wiki Advisory Board

The mission of the Omaha Wiki Advisory Board is to provide the management and information technology infrastructure so users of the Omaha Wiki website can generate interesting and useful content about people, places, organizations and things to do in the Omaha area.

[edit] Vision Statement

The vision of the Omaha Wiki is to be the first website people go to when looking for information on Omaha and to be one of the largest, most comprehensive, and most innovative city wikis in the world.

[edit] Primary Tasks of the Omaha Wiki Advisory Board

• Develop guidelines and policies for governance of the Omaha Wiki website and for the advisory board.
• Secure financial resources to accommodate growth in content and traffic on the Omaha Wiki and to achieve the vision for the Omaha Wiki.
• Ensure legal compliance of the content of the Omaha Wiki. This includes development of terms of use for the site and the development of notification, takedown, and other guidelines, where needed, to minimize the legal risk to Creighton, to the advisory board, and to contributors to the Omaha Wiki.
• Review and approve plans for marketing the Omaha Wiki site to potential users.
• Serve as a liaison to Omaha businesses, governmental entities, schools, churches, non-profit organizations, and other community groups.
• Arrange and oversee the technical hosting of the site. The bandwidth and servers are currently provided by the AIM Institute and the Advisory Board should work with the hosting firm to ensure adequate performance of the site and future growth of the site.

[edit] Principles Guiding the work of the Omaha Wiki Advisory Board

• Open - Draw on ethos and innovation of the open source software movement, but make adaptations where necessary to fit with the Omaha Midwestern business culture.
• Free content – develop “free content” that can be re-used on other sites without violating copyrights and that is able to be modified by other users.
• Rapid prototyping – get something up and improve it over time.
• Rough consensus and running code – seek consensus but do not become paralyzed seeking unanimity.
• Seek broad participation in the work on the Advisory Board.
• Build bridges across disparate groups in Omaha.