[ckan-discuss] Fwd: [datahub-discuss] Organizations upgrade

[Rufus Pollock]

See this update below from Ross about moving to Organizations on the
DataHub. Also at:

http://blog.datahub.io/2013/10/08/organizations-upgrade/

Also if you're interested in DataHub matters please join the discuss list
at:

http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/datahub-discuss

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From: Ross Jones <ross at servercode.co.uk>
Date: 7 October 2013 20:32
Subject: [datahub-discuss] Organizations upgrade
To: "datahub-discuss at lists.okfn.org" <datahub-discuss at lists.okfn.org>


Hello,

A quick note about an upcoming upgrade to help us address spam and improve
the managability of datahub.io.

Anybody can currently post a dataset or create a group on datahub.io, and
we think this is a good thing.  However, it means that spammers can also
post datasets, and they have.  Whilst we certainly don’t want to close
datahub.io from contributions, we do need to make changes to dramatically
reduce the amount of spam being posted and we think that the we may have a
way to achieve that.

* CKAN 2.0 introduced idea of “Organizations” that own/publish datasets and
which can have members who can be administrators* (who can add users and
manage the organization) and *editors* (who can only add datasets to the
organization). This brings many features, not the least of which are that:

 - It provides a much richer permissions and authorization structure (based
around the organization) that gives users greater control over who can, or
cannot,  edit and add datasets
 - It provides a clear organization-oriented structure for presenting and
finding datasets
 - It will help us address spam problem by providing more control over who
adds datasets as it will be a requirement that datasets are added to
organizations.

We plan to *enable organizations in the next few days*. This will have
several major effects:

 - You will *only be able to create a dataset if you belong to an
organization* (and creating an organization at present requires approval
from an Administrator)
 - *Groups will be automatically migrated to organizations* and the
user-account that created them will be made the administrator.  If you find
you don’t have as much control over your organization as you thought,
please let us know!
 - If you had datasets on datahub.io that were not part of a group, they
will be added to a ‘Global’ organization and we will help you move them to
a new organization should you wish to move them.

The migration is likely to take about a couple of hours, and so during this
time datahub.io is likely to be unresponsive. As a result it is likely that
we will take the site down for a short period of time but  I’ll make sure
that we notify the list should it look like it is going to take longer.

Thanks for your patience whilst we sort out the spammers, hopefully we’ll
be seeing a lot less of them in the near future.

Ross
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