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

Fri Sep 21 12:08:53 UTC 2018

' 20 Euro from everyone on the dev List and we‘d go two or three times over the target. ' 

got me. I want more spatial features, publishing data out of a database, better harvesting and INSPIRE support 

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Von: "Steven De Costa" <steven.decosta at linkdigital.com.au> 
An: "CKAN Development Discussions" <ckan-dev at lists.okfn.org> 
CC: "Solomon Mekonnen" <solomon3m at yahoo.com> 
Gesendet: Freitag, 21. September 2018 13:56:21 
Betreff: Re: [ckan-dev] Please support CKAN, and Solomon :) 

Awesome questions Kevin! And big thanks for your support. 

Have a look at the job ad mentioned in the gofundme Page. This is a second ‚no strings attacjed‘ role that will be directed exclusively by the CKAN tech team. 

So, they will work on anything and everything. Basically, support issues and stories. 

So, time to elaborate on our backlog of stories and rank them :) 

The FTE Hours per role will generate up to 2000 hours per year. Having a stable and full time team should allow us to monitor velocity and communicate with users with more confidence about upcoming features and the ETA for releases. 

I have pitched to many organisations in the past with no luck. This is something new :) 

20 Euro from everyone on the dev List and we‘d go two or three times over the target. The best way to help this initiative Right Now is to show our community of devs and users are behind it. That might just convince a few others with deep pockets and/or public funding that it is something to look into more closely. 

Right now, this is about personal donations :) The world benefits from good people doing good things, and this is one of those times! 

If anyone on the list represents an Organisation which might be willing to donate then please let me know. We can certainly arrange a time to discuss options. Formal sponsorships for the CKAN Association are very welcome. 

Cheers, 
Steven 

On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 1:32 PM, Kevin Brochet-Nguyen < [ mailto:kevin at viderum.com | kevin at viderum.com ] > wrote: 

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 ( [ mailto:steven.decosta at linkdigital.com.au | steven.decosta at linkdigital.com.au ] ) wrote: 

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Folks, 

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

Rock on! 
Steven 

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