[@OKFNau] CKAN

Thu Jun 19 12:00:47 UTC 2014

At the last Melbourne #datahack I met a couple of activists that were
looking for an instance of CKAN to show to a contingent of East
Timorese that are coming to Melbourne in late July. They aren't
technically savvy at all to my knowledge - at least not as sysadmins,
which is why they were asking for help.

I've just installed CKAN on Ubuntu 14.04 via the source method in a
virtualenv on my private linode instance which already has a django
site using fastwgsi on port 9000 and a dozen wordpress sites, all
behind Nginx. No caching or anything special, it's all pretty
lightweight tbh.

I mostly have it working, but I've always been poor at fully
comprehending wsgi, and there are still issues. In particular, the
wsgi seems to be flaky. The site renders, it looks pretty good, but
I'm getting 502s on occasion - in particular when trying to register
or login to the site.

Because I've installed from source, and it's running with some success
I'm pretty sure the problem lies in the mix of wsgi and virtualenv,
but I just don't know enough and it's a strange enough combination of
technologies (virtenv, wsgi, ckan, nginx) and constraints (other sites
for clients behind nginx, latest Ubuntu= no deb).

I figure I can play around a little with the uwsgi conf file to get it right.

After that, I have the age old issue of "I've never used CKAN before"
- I'm happy to administer, but I expect they will need it to be easy
enough to use.

How hard is it for beginners to teach themselves to use?

cheers and thanks for the offers - appreciated.

L.

On 16 June 2014 16:32, Daniel Tosello <tosello.daniel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Lachlan,
>
> I've used it a little bit. What do you need to know?
>
> --Daniel
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Lachlan Musicman <datakid at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I was wondering how much opportunity people have had to use CKAN?
>>
>> Cheers
>> L.
>>
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>> The idea is that a beautiful image is frameable. Everything you need
>> to see is there: It’s everything you want, and it’s very pleasing
>> because there’s no extra information that you don’t get to see.
>> Everything’s in a nice package for you. But sublime art is
>> unframeable: It’s an image or idea that implies that there’s a bigger
>> image or idea that you can’t see: You’re only getting to look at a
>> fraction of it, and in that way it’s both beautiful and scary, because
>> it’s reminding you that there’s more that you don’t have access to.
>> It’s now sort of left the piece itself and it’s become your own
>> invention, so it’s personal as well as being scary as well as being
>> beautiful, which is what I really like about art like that.
>>
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The idea is that a beautiful image is frameable. Everything you need
to see is there: It’s everything you want, and it’s very pleasing
because there’s no extra information that you don’t get to see.
Everything’s in a nice package for you. But sublime art is
unframeable: It’s an image or idea that implies that there’s a bigger
image or idea that you can’t see: You’re only getting to look at a
fraction of it, and in that way it’s both beautiful and scary, because
it’s reminding you that there’s more that you don’t have access to.
It’s now sort of left the piece itself and it’s become your own
invention, so it’s personal as well as being scary as well as being
beautiful, which is what I really like about art like that.
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