[ckan-discuss] Setting up CKAN for Romania?

[Jonathan Gray]

Is there any public documentation about how to do the translation that
we can point Liliana to? (If we don't have docs on this perhaps we
should make some...)

Benoit, Friedrich: can either of you help her get started with the translation?

All the best,

Jonathan

On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Liliana Bounegru
<liliana.bounegru at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Rufus,
>
> I'd say that setting up a Romanian version of CKAN would make the database
> more relevant for the Romanian public (which is where my interest goes) and
> would attract more contributors. I'm up for doing the translation, send me
> the material once you have it. The next step after setting up the website
> would be to inform relevant Romanian organizations working on freedom of
> information, transparency, democracy, etc. about the database and have them
> contribute datasets. I'd appreciate any advice on that.
>
> Liliana
>
> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Liliana,
>>
>> Thanks for writing and really good to hear from you. Some responses
>> inlined below.
>>
>> On 28 July 2010 09:37, Liliana Bounegru <liliana.bounegru at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>> > I foresee some difficulties in setting this up also, starting from
>> > obtaining
>> > the data (I don't expect Romanian authorities to respond to requests for
>> > information as quickly as I saw that UK authorities do for documents
>> > posted
>> > in the CKAN database), to media literacy, but I hope to get the support
>> > and
>> > guidance necessary to get this project going from OKF.
>>
>> You can always start out scraping the data yourself or hand-entering
>> it! Also CKAN instances do not just have to be for government data.
>>
>> > Why do I want to make this project happen in Romania? As you may have
>> > guessed, I am a 25 year old Romanian trying to find a way to contribute
>> > to
>> > seeing some social change in Romania. After my attempts to make things
>> > happen from the inside failed, I am now project coordinator for the
>> > European
>> > Journalism Centre (Maastricht/Brussels), where I am working on a project
>> > which aims to train journalists to make use of free and open online
>> > datasets
>> > for reporting - Jonathan Gray (OKF)  will be giving a talk about this in
>> > our
>> > upcoming event (www.datadrivenjournalism.net). In fall I will be
>> > starting a
>>
>> Given your background and interested you may also be interested in
>> another OKF project: <http://www.wheredoesmymoneygo.org/>
>>
>> > Research Master in Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam, with a
>> > grant offered by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science.
>> > I hope to have your support on this and looking forward to get things
>> > started!
>>
>> Sounds amazing Liliana. Two immediate options for what we can do:
>>
>> 1. You could start contributing datasets (Romanian or otherwise) to
>> http://ckan.net
>> 2. We could set up a dedicated ro.ckan.net instance.
>>
>> Which option would you prefer?
>>
>> In either case you would probably want to translate the site into
>> romanian which we can help organize. Would you be up for doing this
>> translation? (It does not involve much work)
>>
>> Rufus
>
>
>
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