[@OKFNau] CKAN

Fri Jun 20 00:29:06 UTC 2014

CKAN is currently being deployed for data.vic.gov.au via Link Digital - so
either Simon De Sousa at DSDBI or Alex Sadlier from Link may be able to
help.

Cheers,

Craig

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On 19 June 2014 22:00, Lachlan Musicman <datakid at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >>
> >> --
> >> 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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