[foundation-board] Fwd: CKAN (Open Knowledge Foundation) / Scraperwiki MOU

Thu Mar 31 12:05:18 UTC 2011

On 31 March 2011 12:35, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> I have been conversing with Scraperwiki over the last few weeks since
> seeing them in Liverpool about a CKAN (OKF) - Scraperwiki partnership.
> Outlined below is a draft agreement based on the latest conversation
> (this morning). Any thoughts?

>From a technical point of view, I think this sounds like a decent
idea. The idea seems to be for Scraperwiki to focus on the ETL stuff
and CKAN on the storage, versioning and registration. Last time I
looked, the ETL layer was based around building out VMs (virtualbox
IIRC) that might add a lot of weight to a CKAN install.

>From a broader perspective, is there not a danger in overlapping
opportunities for Scraperwiki/CKAN - that might leave either party
feeling miffed?  I never quite understood what scraperwiki's business
is.  They were funded by 4ip and release under GPL, but are they a
business or a not for profit, or what?