[ckan-discuss] Building CKAN's user community?

[Bogomil Shopov]

On 02/26/2011 02:44 PM, Rufus Pollock wrote:
> On 24 February 2011 13:15, Bogomil Shopov <bogomil at efb.bg> wrote:
>> On 02/24/2011 02:50 PM, Rufus Pollock wrote:
>>> On 22 February 2011 21:28, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>> Great to start this thread Jonathan. IMO the key things are:
>>>
>>> 1. Community evangelism -- talking specific people about CKAN and the
>>> wider vision about getting, using and sharing data.
>>> 2. Providing some structure around the development CKAN the software
>>> 3. Structure/community practices around CKAN.net - the network of CKAN sites
>> Hey All,
>> I think we need to do some steps before that:
>> 0. Describe the mission of the community
>>  --- Objective, Goals and success criteria
> Very good point. We talked quite a bit in the Autumn about the purpose
> of ckan.net and the ckan software. I've converted the etherpad to a
> wiki page (please add/amend/discuss either here or on the wiki):
>
> <http://wiki.ckan.net/Purpose>
>
>> 1.Plan the community
>>  --- Create implementation plan Internal (strengthen the existing
>> community) and external (how to get more people to the community)
> +1. One thing I've started organizing (following a suggestion by
> Richard Cyganiak and discussion last Autumn) is the establishment of a
> project steering committee. I've just put a page on the wiki about
> this: <http://wiki.ckan.net/Project_Steering_Committee>
Yes, this is a great step ahead!
>> 2. Think about some kind of governance
> Yes. I think we want to keep things clear, simple and lightweight, at
> least at the start.
Yes, but we have to think more for the future and the time is now when
we are on the planning phase
>> Here is a sample plan I made for another organisation:
>> http://www.bogomil.info/sumo.html
> Wow, that's really good. Both this and your previous points are all really good.
>
> I'm wondering: would you be up for helping us prepare such a plan?
Yes I can do that, but first we have to go step by step :)

//Bogo
> Rufus
>
>> //Bogo