[ckan-discuss] CKAN for humans?

[Christopher Gutteridge]

Some time ago I sent quite a long list of suggestions you might use as a 
starting point, the key issue being to consider the poor sod who lands 
on a random CKAN package page, via google. -- they are not very 
hospitable to people who don't actively already understand CKAN.

http://ckan.net/about put me right off.

Perhaps Refus still has my brain dump?


Lucy Chambers wrote:
> I agree with the sentiment that it would be great to make CKAN more
> easy to understand for the non-techies / first time users.
>
> Would it be worth pulling together some keen bodies for a
> Skype-brainstorming call on how we might go about this?
>
> Lucy
>
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Seb Bacon <seb.bacon at okfn.org> wrote:
>   
>> It's certainly OK that other tools are used, I agree :)
>>
>> On the other hand, I think it's vital that we make CKAN a bit easier
>> to understand for the less determined visitor.  Conversations I've
>> been having have made it clear that it's hard for a casual visitor to
>> begin to understand what CKAN is about.  This should change.
>>
>> On a related note, it would be good to try to start towards living up
>> to the "Comprehensive" part of the name; we should perhaps have a
>> project development strand whereby we attempt to import the metadata
>> for many of the sources you've pointed to.
>>
>> Seb
>>
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>>> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Tim McNamara
>>> <paperless at timmcnamara.co.nz> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Does CKAN need to be more accessible to humans? Or is it okay that people
>>>> use other tools?
>>>>         
>>> It's not only OK ... it's in the nature of data publishing on the web.
>>> The fact that people will use other tools should guide the design and
>>> future evolution of CKAN. I'm not entire sure what that means, but I
>>> thought I'd throw it out there :-)
>>>
>>> //Ed
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