[ckan-dev] Please support CKAN, and Solomon :)

Fri Sep 21 11:16:23 UTC 2018

It’s time for the core to grow :)

Any plans for what the second core dev would work on? It’s not clear what they’d be contributing to CKAN or what the benefits would be. Just thinking in terms of how to secure funding—wouldn’t it be easier to pitch to an organization or government with a one-two punch? "Increase open data competency in Ethiopia _and_ ensure that every CKAN user, including the funder, gets easily customizable schemas, or first-class spatial data, or $FEATURE.” Or is that too crass?

I support the initiative, but it I’m going to try to bring another org on board, I think they would want to know more about how the team/Ethiopia’s open data community would benefit and how CKAN would benefit. Are there any links to articles about the state of open data in Ethiopia, for instance?

I’d like to try to drum up interest in the initiative here too, so any information that would help me make a stronger case would be helpful. Maybe I won’t need it, but it would be good to be prepared :)

-Kevin

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On 21. September 2018 at 11:47:57, Steven De Costa (steven.decosta at linkdigital.com.au<mailto:steven.decosta at linkdigital.com.au>) wrote:

Folks,

I can't endorse this initiative enough :)
https://www.gofundme.com/ethiopia-needs-open-data-experts

Solomon, who works with Addis Ababa university is helping to grow our core team of CKAN contributors. I've been mentoring and helping out to get things going and we already have a fully funded position advertised which has received some strong applications.

To add even extra opportunity into this initiative Solomon and I have setup a gofundme to try and raise enough to hire a second CKAN core contributor (again, fully funded for 12 months).

We hope that this will just be the start. During IODC next week I'll be shopping for commitments from various organisations and institutions to fund more such roles.

It would be amazing to have your support, even if you can only spare a little.

Jump in now and let your impulse to help CKAN guide you :)
https://www.gofundme.com/ethiopia-needs-open-data-experts

Rock on!
Steven

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