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

Fri Sep 21 12:17:52 UTC 2018

Rock on Florian! Thanks so much for your support.

On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 2:09 PM, Florian Hoedt <florian.hoedt at thuenen.de>
wrote:

>
> ' 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 <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 (
>> 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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